Riding With The Diaspora

The Title Poem Of Riding With The Diaspora Doesnt Come Until The End, But Facets Of The Diaspora Experience - Scattering, Displacement, Migration, Homesickness, Alienation, Otherness -build Toward It Throughout. Here Are Poems About Displaced Indigenous Americans And Their Migrant European Displacers; Descendants Of Enslaved Africans And Refugees From Nazism; The Poor, The Elderly And The Ill, Alienated From Society And Their Own Bodies; Conflicted Products Of Small-town Upbringings; Even Seeds And Microbes, Scattered Westward Across The Plains With The Unsettling Settlers Of American Expansion. These Provide A Unifying Theme - One Which Also Offers Moments Of Reconciliation And Grace - To A Book Of Solidly Crafted, Humane And Powerful Poems.