{"product_id":"gubbins-alex-vartan-decoding-tpb","title":"Gubbins, Alex Vartan: Decoding the Hill of Dead Kings","description":"\u003cp\u003eWayne State University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 19, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA vivid portrait of trying to find home when two places are calling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlex Vartan Gubbins paints a stunning portrait of a life lived between his two homelands: Michigan and Armenia. Written primarily in English with some poems in Armenian, this collection combines elegy and lyric across prose and open forms to shed light on the conundrum of diaspora--feeling rooted here, there, and in neither place entirely. Crossing the boundaries of space and time, Gubbins probes and unsettles notions of legacy, family, diaspora, geopolitical borders, and narratives of power. The ebb and flow of sadness and longing, paralleled by unshakeable spirit, ultimately settles within these poems as hope and wonder at existing in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45195765153815,"sku":"9780814352960","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91MboVXGCdL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780862894","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/gubbins-alex-vartan-decoding-tpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}