OPINIONS
[Sona Van’s] moving poems makes one understand and identify with the trauma of genocide and denial.
Yair Auron
Israeli historian, Scholar, Genocide Studies Expert, Tel Aviv, IsraelSona Van’s works are charged with great energy, simplicity, beauty, universal messages to the world, reflecting ancient patterns with the most contemporary tools.
Stanley H. Barkan
Poet & Publisher, New York, USASona Van is a voice howling in the wilderness, a distinct, profound voice; a teller of tales too terrible to be forgotten, a weaver of images both inchoate with longing and ripe and fecund with image. She takes us to the desert of our desire, of our lusts for power, sex, conquest, and sings of a mother’s love a mother’s wailing loss, a lover’s lament, a woman’s strength. This is music to be felt like the dry wind of the desert, felt on the skin as if a bullet had just skimmed by barely missing the beating heart.
Genie Davis
Writer, Producer, Multi-published Novelist, Los Angeles, USAIt is as though her words are written upon steamed glass with the light touch of a fingerprint sharing secrets with the reader. She is speaking with her sisters buried beneath the desert sand whose bones can be uncovered until this day (if you dig a little). After reading her book, I only have one desire: to go to that desert.
Ragip Zarakolu
Writer, Publisher, Human Rights Advocate, Istambul, TurkeySona Van’s hauntingly beautiful poetry conjures up powerful images of those souls who perished in the desert. Her evocative words speak for the one and a half million innocent Armenian men, women and children who were silenced during the Armenian Genocide.
Adam Schiff
U.S. Congressman, Dem.Sona Van is a model for contemporary poets, both in the depth of her poetic thoughts and the complexity of her poetic art.
Darius Thomas Lebioda
Poet & Publisher, PolandThe ultimate poetic effect is not only acoustic, but also a symphonic and existential understanding that delivers the reader into a pleasant vertigo, causing them to lean upon a person nearby. This is the seeing woman’s dialogue with the mannequin of time.
Yuri Belyavskiy
Edior of Culture Magazine, Moscow, RussiaSona Van arrives as the new Sappho of our time, with a velocity of thought that exceeds the velocity of lightening. She achieves an aesthetic and spiritual balance in the trinity of universe, god and man, that is unprecedented.
David Gasparyan
Literary Critic, Doctor, Professor, Yerevan, ArmeniaSona Van’s conceptual chronology starts at least from Narekatsi (10th Century). She has inherited from her immortalized literary ancestors the combination of ontological openness and practical ingeniousness. She is not lured by traditional constraints. She in no way abandons her voice, rhythm, and associative freedom. Sona Van is referred to as “The New Sappho.” She is new in everything. But, the most innovative thing about Sona Van’s poetry is her natural sense of time—a sense that is deeper and more ancient that time immemorial.
Ilya Falikov
Poet, Translator, Literary Critic, Moscow, RussiaLike a vocal signal sounding loudly in the indifferent ear of the modern world, Sona Van’s words take you to the root of human existence. She is a shining star in the poetic universe. I am proud to be her contemporary.
Hranoush Hagopian
Minister of the Diaspora Republic of Armenia (2008-2018)Sona Van’s moving poems makes one understand and identify with the trauma of genocide and denial.
Yair Auron
Israeli historian, Scholar, Genocide Studies Expert, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Sona Van’s works are charged with great energy, simplicity, beauty, universal messages to the world, reflecting ancient patterns with the most contemporary tools.
Stanley H. Barkan
Poet & Publisher, New York, USA
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Sona Van is a voice howling in the wilderness, a distinct, profound voice; a teller of tales too terrible to be forgotten, a weaver of images both inchoate with longing and ripe and fecund with image. She takes us to the desert of our desire, of our lusts for power, sex, conquest, and sings of a mother’s love a mother’s wailing loss, a lover’s lament, a woman’s strength. This is music to be felt like the dry wind of the desert, felt on the skin as if a bullet had just skimmed by barely missing the beating heart.
Genie Davis
Writer, Producer, Multi-published Novelist, Los Angeles, USA
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It is as though her words are written upon steamed glass with the light touch of a fingerprint sharing secrets with the reader. She is speaking with her sisters buried beneath the desert sand whose bones can be uncovered until this day (if you dig a little). After reading her book, I only have one desire: to go to that desert.
Ragip Zarakolu
Writer, Publisher, Human Rights Advocate, Istambul, Turkey
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Sona Van’s hauntingly beautiful poetry conjures up powerful images of those souls who perished in the desert. Her evocative words speak for the one and a half million innocent Armenian men, women and children who were silenced during the Armenian Genocide.
Adam Schiff
U.S. Congressman, Dem.
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Sona Van is a model for contemporary poets, both in the depth of her poetic thoughts and the complexity of her poetic art.
Darius Thomas Lebioda
Poet & Publisher, Poland
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The ultimate poetic effect is not only acoustic, but also a symphonic and existential understanding that delivers the reader into a pleasant vertigo, causing them to lean upon a person nearby. This is the seeing woman’s dialogue with the mannequin of time.
Yuri Belyavskiy
Edior of Culture Magazine, Moscow, Russia
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Sona Van arrives as the new Sappho of our time, with a velocity of thought that exceeds the velocity of lightening. She achieves an aesthetic and spiritual balance in the trinity of universe, god and man, that is unprecedented.
David Gasparyan
Literary Critic, Doctor, Professor, Yerevan, Armenia
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Sona Van’s conceptual chronology starts at least from Narekatsi (10th Century). She has inherited from her immortalized literary ancestors the combination of ontological openness and practical ingeniousness. She is not lured by traditional constraints. She in no way abandons her voice, rhythm, and associative freedom. Sona Van is referred to as “The New Sappho.” She is new in everything. But, the most innovative thing about Sona Van’s poetry is her natural sense of time — a sense that is deeper and more ancient that time immemorial.
Ilya Falikov
Poet, Translator, Literary Critic, Moscow, Russia
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Like a vocal signal sounding loudly in the indifferent ear of the modern world, Sona Van’s words take you to the root of human existence. She is a shining star in the poetic universe. I am proud to be her contemporary.
Hranoush Hagopian
Minister of the Diaspora Republic of Armenia (2008-2018)