May 7, 2004
How a Poet Writes History Without Going Mad
On a recent book tour for The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response, I was asked by an eminent Armenian psychiatrist how I was able to write about massacre, deportation, rape, and torture without becoming depressed or even incapacitated. He told me that in his own course on trauma he found it nearly impossible to teach about the Armenian Genocide because it caused him such pain.
My response was not psychological. I would imagine that any writer who writes about
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