Instructions for Seeing a Ghost

This poetry collection is the record of an American's return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a virtuoso display of lyric and formal inventiveness, Bellin-Oka's poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty.

Aceasta colectie de poezie este inregistrarea intoarcerii unui american dupa un deceniu in strainatate, un exil impus doar pentru ca iubea un alt barbat. Intr-o expunere virtuoasa a inventivitatii lirice si formale, poeziile lui Bellin-Oka mediteaza asupra nenumaratelor pierderi generate de diaspora: acasa, familie si identitate sexuala si certitudine spirituala.