AT QUARTER PAST REALITY: NEW AND 
SELECTED POEMS by Helene Pilibosian

Helene Pilibosian was educated in Watertown schools and at Harvard University.
Nelson Antrim Crawford, editor of Author & Journalist, compared her work to
expressionist painting. She was an editor of The Armenian Mirror-Spectator,
a weekly newspaper and studied poetry briefly at Harvard with the poet Gail
Mazur, who appreciated her "magical details" and her "always bringing the 
past into the present." 

She published her first book of poems, CARVINGS FROM AN HEIRLOOM, in 1983 and 
THEY CALLED ME MUSTAFA: MEMOIR OF AN IMMIGRANT, a book of prose she and her 
father wrote, in 1992 and FROM KESSAB TO WATERTOWN: A MODERN SAGA, a 
compilation by Hagop Sarkissian, in 1997. Her poems have appeared in many
literary magazines, some of them prizewinners. 

This collection, which gleaned a Writer's Digest Award, contains narrative
poems about her childhood in Watertown, MA, her family, as well as lyric
poems of general interest, concluding with a poem based on her near-death
experience. 

The book is in paperback with 96 pages of poetry available for $11.50 plus
$2.50 shipping (U.S. funds).  For ordering information on any of the
capitalized titles please contact Helene Pilibosian at: hsarkiss@comcast.net,
or her website at http://home.comcast.net/~hsarkiss, or write to her at
171 Maplewood St., Watertown, MA 02472-1324.