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Jonathan Maiullo first went to Armenia in 2008. He spent the next two years rambling over the country on foot whenever he wasn’t teaching his English classes in Yeghegnadzor. He has since lived and worked as an English teacher in several countries, but has never quite been able to shake the memories of the the edenic world he found somewhere between Goris and Gyumri, which as invariably led him to visit many Armenian enclaves worldwide, if only to renew his familiarity with the musical language and search for the illusive boboki muraba (sweet green walnut preserves).

John Gery has published five volumes of poetry, most recently A Gallery of Ghosts (2008), and has written extensively on modern and contemporary poetry, including the books Contemporary American Poetry and Nuclear Annihilation: Ways of Nothingness (1996) and (with others) In Venice and in the Veneto with Ezra Pound (2007). He has co-translated works from Serbian, Chinese, Armenian, and French, is professor of literature and creative writing at the University of New Orleans, and directs the Ezra Pound Center for Literature at Brunnenburg, Italy.

JOHN LEE is a food and lifestyle photographer who shoots regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle.

John M. Douglas is well versed in classical history. He is the author of many books. This latest work makes an invaluable and lasting contribution to the history of this ancient race. For his research Mr. Douglas has traveled widely around the world and spent some time in Armenian refugee camps in the Middle East. Articulate and erudite, he is noted to have the ability to present historical events in storylike manner, straightforward and\