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Acknowledgments
Book I. Coming Home
So I Stand Here
What Took Us to War
Erecting Stones: January 2013
Looters of War 2011
Coming Home: A Poem for MT
Send Me Some Black Clothes
I Need Two Bodies
The Creation
And You Tell Me This Is a Funeral?
Loss
If You Have Never Been Married
Becoming Ghost
The Killed Ones
The Cities We Lost
A City of Ghosts
July Rain
I Go Home
Song for Mariam Makeba
When Monrovia Rises
This Is the Real Leaving
Book II. Colliding Worlds
In My Dream
Sometimes, I Close My Eyes
Sandy: Love Song for the Hurricane Woman
Tsunami: A Song for an Unknown Young Man
For My Children, Growing Up in America
You Wouldn’t Let Me Adopt My Dog: A Poem for Ade-Juah
When I Grow Up
The Inequality of Dogs
Medellin from My Hotel Room Balcony
Morocco, on the Way to London
To Libya: February 2011
Sometimes I Wonder
The Deer on My Lawn
Leaves Are Leaving Us Again
Book III. World (Un)/Breakable
I Want to Be the Woman
This Morning
When I Was a Girl
I’m Afraid of Emptiness
Silence
I Want Everything
Finally, the Allergist
I Dreamed
On the Midnight Train
First Class
This Is Facebook
A Room with a View
Braiding Hair
Losing Hair
Hair
2014, My Mamma Never Knew You

When the Wanderers Come Home

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      Publisher University of Nebraska Press
      Published 1 November 2016
      ISBN-13 9780803288577
      978-0803288577
      ISBN-10 0803288573

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Book I. Coming Home
      So I Stand Here
      What Took Us to War
      Erecting Stones: January 2013
      Looters of War 2011
      Coming Home: A Poem for MT
      Send Me Some Black Clothes
      I Need Two Bodies
      The Creation
      And You Tell Me This Is a Funeral?
      Loss
      If You Have Never Been Married
      Becoming Ghost
      The Killed Ones
      The Cities We Lost
      A City of Ghosts
      July Rain
      I Go Home
      Song for Mariam Makeba
      When Monrovia Rises
      This Is the Real Leaving
      Book II. Colliding Worlds
      In My Dream
      Sometimes, I Close My Eyes
      Sandy: Love Song for the Hurricane Woman
      Tsunami: A Song for an Unknown Young Man
      For My Children, Growing Up in America
      You Wouldn’t Let Me Adopt My Dog: A Poem for Ade-Juah
      When I Grow Up
      The Inequality of Dogs
      Medellin from My Hotel Room Balcony
      Morocco, on the Way to London
      To Libya: February 2011
      Sometimes I Wonder
      The Deer on My Lawn
      Leaves Are Leaving Us Again
      Book III. World (Un)/Breakable
      I Want to Be the Woman
      This Morning
      When I Was a Girl
      I’m Afraid of Emptiness
      Silence
      I Want Everything
      Finally, the Allergist
      I Dreamed
      On the Midnight Train
      First Class
      This Is Facebook
      A Room with a View
      Braiding Hair
      Losing Hair
      Hair
      2014, My Mamma Never Knew You

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