American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement Book

	Editors' Note
	Acknowledgments
	Dialect	3
	China Camp, California	5
	Passports	7
	Generations	10
	The Years	12
	In the Chips	13
	Gallery	15
	The Letter	17
	Exile	18
	Diasporadic	21
	On Forgettings	23
	Flood Plain: The Right-of-Way	25
	And Wake Up Where?	27
	Political or Not, Here Comes that Poem	29
	Changing the Name to Ochester	31
	Jose Canseco Breks Our Hearts Again	35
	Poem for Pancho Gonzales	36
	Running to America	37
	City of Angels	38
	The Emigrant	39
	Willie and the Train	40
	Distance	41
	Mi Vida: Wings of Fright	42
	Thieves of Light	43
	Come to Find Out	46
	Poem for a Vietnamese Student	48
	Variations for Hendrix and Vietnam	49
	At the Bar	51
	Years of Exile	54
	California	56
	Still Kicking in America	58
	Persona	59
	Farragut North	61
	In the Twilight Zone All I Know Is the Commercials	62
	Dust and Broughtonia	64
	Two Sounds	65
	Under the Freeway in El Paso	66
	Todorov at Ellis Island	68
	Dixie	69
	The Extinct Homeland - A Conversation with Czeslaw Milosz	75
	13th Arrondissement Blues	78
	La Lupe	80
	Rafael Hernandez	83
	To Be Sung on the Fourth of July	86
	New York Public Library	89
	Public School No. 18, Paterson, New Jersey	91
	Whereabouts	93
	Reading Kerouac, Yorkshire	95
	King of Wounds	96
	Easter, Circa 1960	98
	Salt Longing	99
	History Class	100
	Death of a War Hero	104
	Mercy and the Brazos River	108
	Inventory	110
	The Pallor of Survival	112
	Colors of a Free Life	114
	Guide to the Tokyo Subway	116
	Letter to Mirta Yanez	120
	Coral Way, Near the Roads	122
	The Refugee	123
	Homecoming	127
	From the Book of Lamentations	128
	Loose Sugar	129
	Red Fingernails	130
	Phonograph	131
	My Father Learns to Speak (Again)	133
	The Cloud of Unknowing	135
	Exile	137
	Digging Up Peonies	138
	Book of Ruth	140
	Coaching My Father on His Temporarily Moving into My Old Bedroom	142
	Love Penned Red	143
	Lost and Found	144
	Wind-Chill Factor	145
	Waiting on Family Court	147
	Jew's Harp	148
	For Borscht	149
	Yes	151
	The Star-Spangled Banner	153
	Translating My Parents	156
	Arturo	158
	Lenox Hill	160
	My Father Recounts a Story from His Youth	163
	Jasmine	166
	Dislocation	169
	How to Look West from Mount Pleasant, Utah	172
	Heat Wave: Liberty, Missouri	175
	You, If No One Else	178
	A Note on My Son's Face	180
	Photo, 1945	183
	Auger	185
	Ghost Passenger, Day and Night	187
	Thoreau	189
	The Minks	190
	Postcards from Florida	192
	Vanity of the Atlantic Ocean	194
	For the Old Rider at the Mall in Sioux Falls	196
	Mexican	198
	To the Bougainvillaea	201
	The Patriot	202
	In Heavy Fog Outside Bishopville, South Carolina	203
	Underwater	204
	Cross-Cultural Generes	205
	Seizure	206
	Shoyn Fergessin: "I've Forgotten" in Yiddish	207
	Prodigal	208
	Barbie, Madame Alexander, Bronislawa Wajs	210
	American Suite for a Lost Daughter	213
	Scoured	216
	The Estrangement of Luis Morone	217
	For the Sake of Tiger Lilies	219
	Lamentation Canzone	220
	On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person	224
	El Balserito	227
	Ninety-one in the Shade	228
	35-mm Clips	233
	The End of Soup Kitchens	235
	Poem at an Unmarked Grave	237
	Portrait of a Couple at Century's End	238
	Towns	240
	Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory	242
	A Northern Darkness	243
	Absence	247
	For Someone Considering Death	249
	Dwarf with Violin, Government Center Station	250
	Postcards to Columbus	251
	Postmodernism	252
	Survivor's Song	253
	Credo	254
	Questions for Ecclesiastes	255
	No Living in Parked Vehicles	258
	Soul	259
	Seven & Seven	261
	Breaking and Entering	262
	Joint Venture	263
	Manifesto	265
	How the Streets in Front of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me I Am Home	267
	A Change of Place	269
	Nod	270
	Dark Songs: Slave House and Synagogue	272
	July 4th	281
	Internal Exile	285
	Bodwin's Madmen	286
	Autobiography	287
	Confession	291
	Ang Tunay Na Lalaki Stalks the Streets of New York	293
	Mask	295
	The Reappeared	297
	In California	298
	East River Prison Barge	300
	The Sirens of Los Angeles	301
	Beach Rogue	303
	Plus Shipping	304
	David's Rumor	306
	Big Thicket Requiem	310
	Rural Particles	315
	Symmetry	316
	Teshuvah	317
	Max Beckmann & Quappi in Blue	318
	Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum	321
	Comcomly's Skull	322
	Looking for Level Green	324
	Two Uncertainties	325
	What Hurts	326
	Moment	327
	Walking Back	328
	A Flock of Phantom Limbs Gather at the Border	329
	Elegy Written on a Blue Cement Gravestone (To You, the Archeologist)	331
	Poem from Across the Country	333
	Miami	335
	How It Begins - How It Ends	336
	Contributors' Notes	337
	Permissions	357
	Index	365