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As one of the few witches in Britain

to be waited upon hand and foot

He’s not interested in doing what’s right

and where to stay--without focusing solely on gay bars and pride parades

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Palace of Forty Pillars Lara Elena Donnelly As one of the fewWry, tender, and formally innovative, Armen Davoudian's debut poetry collection, The Palace of Forty Pillars, tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran, and an immigrant in America. It is a story darkened by the long shadow of global tragedies the Armenian genocide, war in the Middle East, the specter of homophobia. With masterful attention to rhyme and meter, these poems also carefully