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Graduating seniors poet Amalia Tenuta and pianist Ssuyuan Wang have been honored for their exceptional contributions to the performing and creative arts on campus.
Swan Song Durham, NC: Bull City Press, 2020. 40 pages. $12.00. In my first encounter with Armen Davoudian, the poet was already saying goodbye. “Wake-Up Call,” an elegant sonnet that is both self-elegy and familial love poem, describes—with a disembodied intimacy—Davoudian’s parents preparing breakfast, only to discover that he has disappeared: I can hear around my head, against the coming light, for any moment now they will open the door and l...