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YEREVAN. - Through high art we can vividly present to the humanity the immoral, monstrous and barbarian phenomenon of the Armenian Genocide. American Armenian writer and Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry, Peter Balakian, who is in Yerevan these days, told journalists Thursday.

According to the poet, it is possible to present to the humanity the Armenian Genocide and the problems which worry people first of all by means of the power of literature which cuts the thick layers of history. This is a complex process, which mixed incompatible poles and incompatible situations, he added.

Peter Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University, in Madison County, New York. He is the author of seven books of poems and four prose works, including The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, a New York Times best seller, and Black Dog of Fate, a memoir, winner of the PEN/Albrand Prize.

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