American Radiance

Luisa Muradyan is a PhD candidate in poetry at the University of Houston and editor in chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. Her poems have been published in Poetry International, Paris-American, Blackbird, Ninth Letter, West Branch, and the Los Angeles Review, among other publications.

Acknowledgments
Part 1. Psalm for Odessa
If You Were Wondering about the Couple Who Owns the Funeral Home
Schwarzenegger in Prayer
Purple Rain
Clams
Bruce Willis, in the Light
Macho Man Randy Savage
7:40    
Prodigal Son
Lilies    
Maria Rasputin
The Red Forest,
Crane    
Resurrection
The Seduction of Masha by Rasputin
Doves
We Were Cosmonauts
Boris    
Marriage
Anecdote
Message from a Peeping Tom
Ornithology
What Is True for Birds
Psalm for Odessa
Part 2. American Radiance
New Eden
Adoration
Raptor    
Translating Ashes
Crane Fly 
Rasputin and Alexei 
Moscow 1972
Deaf Sonnet,
Firefly    
Boot    
Trawler
Spicer’s Promise to Lorca
Spud Love
In the Moonlight
Spilling
Breasts
Into the Blackberry
Records of Failed Weapons of World War II
Rumi in the Mouth of the Snake 
Poem for the Man Playing Piano in Front of the Wall of Police
Cremation
This Was His Garden 
American Radiance