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Instructions for Seeing a Ghost

Instructions for Seeing a Ghost

Bellin-Oka, Steve

Paperback

Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, Book 27

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1574417878
ISBN13: 9781574417876
Publisher: Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conser
Published: Dec 18 2019
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 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. Steve Bellin-Oka's poems hold in balance an intensified language and a passionate voice that bring together the struggles of the inner life with stark realities. This is a book of arresting authenticity.--Peter Balakian, Pulitzer-Prize winner and judge From Self-Portrait as the Chosen One Long before I was what I am now, short of breath, bald, just returned with arthritic knees from exile in another country's muck and red volcanic soil, too near-sighted to discern the High Plains tumbleweed from the burning bush of myth, scorched now and silent, long before this, I was the first son my mother bore that lived. Number Twenty-seven: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry STEVE BELLIN-OKA is the author of a chapbook, Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station and is the recipient of a Tulsa Artists Fellowship in poetry. He has taught at the University of Mississippi and Eastern New Mexico University. He lives in Tulsa with his husband.

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