Living in Quiet: New & Selected Poems

A long anticipated volume of selected poems by an outstanding and widely honored poet and author. This collection is comprised of selections from David Kherdian’s 22 previously published poetry volumes, as well as new poems.

Reviews and Endorsements

“David Kherdian’s LIVING IN QUIET: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is an intriguing collection with images from his childhood, early days of marriage, reflections about his parents and Armenian customs, his nine years in a spiritual farming community, and more. Each section reveals something about who David is as a person and as a poet. The poems for his wife, Nonny Hogrogian, artist (the cover is one of her woodcuts), sparkle with self-discovery. “Getting Married” made me smile with its innocence and joy and anticipation of the future. The words for his parents, particularly those for his father, contain tortured memories of not understanding how unbearably difficult it was for them to begin a new life in America, living through bombings by the Turks, forced from their homeland during the Armenian Genocide. His years on the farm bring him a peace that I feel he had not known before that, a peace and an awareness of life’s blessings… ” — Donna/Reader Review