Earthquake - Poems

". . . `lists' in intriguing, original, profoundly imaginative manners -- the catalogue of the maps of the Armenian soul. . . . Shirinian explores in both poetry and prose the themes of identity, loss, redemption, dissolution, loss of self, the world of the exile, the psychology of permanent derangement, human disassociation, the meaning of national identity, the sardonic, ironic dissimulation inherent in survival techniques, both in a collective sense as well as in a personal, formative, developmental sense." -- Armenian Review