Teni Arlen’s Poetry Collection “Saying with Passion Why I Am Here” Published by ARI Press with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The novel The Ambassador of Your Country would remain unpublished until the collapse of the Soviet Union – it was not possible to have poetry in novels – the truth of the poem was unacceptable – in the novel, a carriage was passing through Armenian land – there was no road – the road was created by the carriage – and the wheels of the carriage would not tell, but would recreate the history of Armenia – it was the desire to create the history of the people – the carriage was carrying the desire to create the past and the future of the country and its people.