You Must Become Field by Perla Kantarjian Emma Press tracing the development over a

tracing the development over a quarter of a century of a unique poetic talent

David McGrath

as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations

observing the cult of celebrity

You Must Become Field by Perla Kantarjian Emma Press tracing the development over aPublished 24th September 2026 You Must Become Field moves with astonishing fluidity, from the 1915 arrest of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople to a 2025 Beirut club bathroom where girls fix each other's eyeliner between airstrikes. Kantarjian braids the Armenian Genocide's long aftermath with the urgent present: Lebanon's economic collapse, the Beirut Port explosion's glass rain, Artsakh's exodus, war in Lebanon without flattening either into