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Michael Pifer explores how Muslim and Christian poets of Anatolia grappled with the stunning cultural diversity of their region, home not only to Armenians and Greeks, but also to Persians, Turks, Arabs, Mongols, Jews, and others. This convergence produced fresh poetic styles and sensibilities, native to no single people, enabling the period’s literature to speak to new and wider audiences. It is the first book to study the era’s major poets against the canvas of this broader literary ecosystem.

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“A highly original work that reconceptualizes Anatolian literature not just as a combination of different national literatures, but as shared modes of (re)interpretation articulated in different linguistic registers.”—Sergio La Porta, California State University, Fresno   “This manuscript is a remarkable achievement and will immediately become a go-to reference for medieval Anatolian literature. A joy to read.”—Alison Vacca, University of Tennessee Knoxville “Kindred Voices is a work full of marvelous ‘chimeric couplings’ in which we witness medieval Anatolia through a prism never seen before.”—Rebecca Ruth Gould, author of Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus   “Kindred Voices adds Armenian to an exciting new trend in Medieval Studies: reading literary texts not as foundational pieces of a national tradition but as witnesses of the lively exchange across languages, cultures, and religions.”—Sharon Kinoshita, Co-founder and co-director, The Mediterranean Seminar “Kindred Voices is a beautifully written, provocative, and masterful evaluation of the importance of poetry in medieval Anatolia. It brims with original ideas, and will continue to reach and inspire a broad readership in the years to come.”—Selim Kuru, University of Washington  

A highly original work that reconceptualizes Anatolian literature not just as a combination of different national literatures, but as shared modes of (re)interpretation articulated in different linguistic registers. -Sergio La Porta, California State University, Fresno This manuscript is a remarkable achievement and will immediately become a go-to reference for medieval Anatolian literature. A joy to read. -Alison Vacca, University of Tennessee Knoxville Kindred Voices is a work full of marvelous 'chimeric couplings' in which we witness medieval Anatolia through a prism never seen before. -Rebecca Ruth Gould, author of Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus Kindred Voices adds Armenian to an exciting new trend in Medieval Studies: reading literary texts not as foundational pieces of a national tradition but as witnesses of the lively exchange across languages, cultures, and religions. -Sharon Kinoshita, Co-founder and co-director, The Mediterranean Seminar Kindred Voices is a beautifully written, provocative, and masterful evaluation of the importance of poetry in medieval Anatolia. It brims with original ideas, and will continue to reach and inspire a broad readership in the years to come. -Selim Kuru, University of Washington

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Michael Pifer is lecturer in Armenian language and literature at the University of Michigan. His publications include the coedited volume An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion.

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