Instructions for Seeing a Ghost
Bellin-Oka, Steve![Instructions for Seeing a Ghost](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/332/33213301/CHSBZCOP0333213301.jpg)
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 pa...