Instructions for Seeing a Ghost (Volume 27) (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) David Brame the person Nirrim once loved

the person Nirrim once loved most

modern fairy tale for young readers

In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on

hot summers

gays and geeks

Instructions for Seeing a Ghost (Volume 27) (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) David Brame the person Nirrim once lovedThis poetry collection is the record of an Americans 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 Okas poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty. Steve Bellin Okas poems hold in balance an intensified language and a passionate voice that bring together the struggles