Instructions for Seeing a Ghost

Download or read book Instructions for Seeing a Ghost written by Steve Bellin-Oka and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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