Enter the New York art scene of the 1970s and ’80s with fresh eyes. Award-winning author and curator, Omar Kholeif, weaves us through the many worlds of Sonia Balassanian, an Iranian American artist of Armenian descent who came to renown with her political art in the 1980s and early ’90s. In these pages, the author delves into poetry and Lyrical Abstraction, as well as collage and portraiture developed in response to the American hostage crisis in Iran. Travel from the exhibition halls of MoMA, New York, to the monasteries of rural Armenia.