Artem Vaskanyan

Ruminating Years Artem Vaskanyan

"Ruminating Years" is about my life's journey through which I reveal my personal life experience in a poetic way. It consists of 74 short and epic poems that talk about love, despair, happiness and loss, humor, sarcasm, and spiritual and intellectual growth while being incarcerated since the year 2000. But mostly the book reveals the important of being true to oneself, understanding that life is a path on which we attain our spiritual and intellectual growth; and if we do not share our life experience with the rest of the world, then our internal growth will die with us; and our lives will serve no purpose to the ones in need of guidance and we will be forgotten just as swiftly as the clouds pass over us.