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2010
| My Literary Profile: A Memoir by Helene Pilibosian describes the many influences that shaped her life, including Watertown, MA, the Armenian Genocide and the public schools. She writes about her study of humanities in Harvard's Division of Continuing Education, including the study of literature with Howard Mumford Jones and Paul Engle as well as employment there. Her accounts of life in Cambridge and Watertown in the 1950s and other decades offer an unusual glimpse of the past
Pilibosian ove....[more] |
2007
| In 96 pages Pilibosian deals with highlights of Armenian history beginning with a comment on the pagan god Vahakn and a poem called "Grandparent Herbs" about the Armenian Genocide of 1915. A number of poems describe Armenian life in the Middle East, and "I Chose the Poetic," finalist in a NEW LETTERS literary competition, details Armenia’s independence of 1991. |
1999
| The true story of Khachadoor, a boy caught in the Armenian Genocide who is kidnapped by a Kurd and years later escapes slavery to emigrate to America. Detailed are his birthplace of Ichmeh in Turkish Armenia and Armenian immigrant life in Watertown, Mass., including his employment at the first Star Market store in Watertown Square and his own store, Huron Spa in Cambridge. His acquaintance with artist Arshile Gorky and Yenovk Der Hagopian, singer of Armenian troubadour songs, is recorded. Add....[more] |
1998
| Subjects include her life in Watertown and Cambridge, Mass. with reference to regional sites, her family, Armenian-American experiences and general poems. The book is first prize winner of the Writer's Digest National Self-Published Book Awards of 1998.
Her work has appeared in many literary anthologies and magazines such as North American Review, The Cape Rock, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review and The Hollins Critic (pending). Three of the poems are prizewinners, another a finalist called....[more] |
1983
| . The book contains 64 short poems which are based on information from interviews with her parents about their village of origin in historic Armenia, which is now in Turkey. The first half of the book presents incidents and characterizations from this area of folk life with appropriate simple styling; the second half of the book relates more to the Armenian-American life and nostalgia for what was left behind. There are interviews with a town doctor; there are many references to bilingual or ....[more] |
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