Diana Der-Hovanessian is the author of twenty-two books of poetry and translations and has received numerous awards for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and PEN-Columbia Translation Center, among others.
If you think you don't like poetry, The Second Question will quickly change your mind; if you're already a hopeless poetry addict, you'll be lavishly rewarded.
–X.J. Kennedy
She is a brilliant poet who has opened up a new world to the English reader.
—Times Literary Supplement
When I came upon these poems first I was bowled over. This is what poetry can do but very rarely ever has done.
—May Sarton
I feel her poems in me, the sense of destruction and unquenchable life, of creativity and genocide, fragmentation and connectedness. They are profoundly touching, heart reaching.
—Adrienne Rich
Der-Hovanessian has, to be sure, a wonderful, even fearful subject; but knowing what to make of that, how to make it art, is another and rarer matter.
—James Merrill
