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Glaring Through Oblivion. Words © 2011 by Serj Tankian |
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Revision as of 19:04, 26 June 2011
| Author | Serj Tankian |
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| Illustrator | Roger Kupelian |
| Cover artist | Sako Shahinian |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Publication place | China |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-201205-0 |
| OCLC | 641532445 |
| Preceded by | Cool Gardens |
Glaring Through Oblivion is the second poetry book by the Grammy Award-winning Armenian-American lead singer of the band System of a Down, Serj Tankian. Unlike the first poetry book, Cool Gardens, Glaring Through Oblivion was published by HarperCollins Publishers and printed in China. It was released on March 22nd, 2011 and is a collection of stunning and original poems of darkness and light.
While some of the poems contain qoutations which ended in his songs, although sometimes a bit modified others only consist of one line and don't have a title. The last poem in the book, Borders, actually was to become a whole song on his second album Imperfect Harmonies known as the second Track Border Are...
Glaring Through Oblivion Poem Listing
- A prose A few days after September 11th
- Deaf Nation
- Down with the System
- The Hand
- Civilization
- Countless Manipulations
- We intend to rest through motion, speak through silence, and fight through peace.
- The Fool
- Antwerp Melting
- Remote Viewing
- World of Words
- Blindness serves not God, but man.
- #82
- Vermillion
- Home is a place you can't walk away from, in the end.
- You speak to millions but talk to no one.
- Lovely in love, ugly in death, better than sex in Turkish prisons, safer than cement condoms.
- The messenger speaks through chaos
- Los Angeles
- Dates, Rates, Plates, Fates, Mates, and Kates
- I'm being chased by children playing miniature toy accordions made in China.
- The Void (was already published in Cool Gardens)
- Life Savers
- She sells sea shells, buy the real whore!
- The blind man cannot see all the marchers on the opposite side.
- Salivation
- I adore the whore who calls herself reality.
- Claustrophobia
- Uncertainty
- Condemned
- The Teacher
- The Nerves of Them (read by Serj Tankian himself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqcQDI7wCzA&feature=player_embedded)
References
Glaring Through Oblivion. Words © 2011 by Serj Tankian