Description

Armen Sargsyan’s poetry collection “Absences” brings together texts written over the past ten years. In the book, absence becomes the densest form of presence, while words serve as a means of reinterpreting reality. The poetics is minimalist: every word is chosen out of necessity, every pause follows its own logic. Unconventional punctuation and poetic forms emphasize the imagery of the texts. In Armen’s poems, life bursts forth like a fountain, the city becomes a body, and the horizon narrows the world. His poems are written through imagination and are read through imagination; their persuasiveness comes from the force of the poet’s experience. Absences reminds us that poetry does not conceal empty spaces; it teaches us to see how full they actually are.