The poems included in On Loss describe the subjective impact on the writers of Ghanaian patterns of migration. In the first poem, A.B. Godfreed refuses to carry within herself "so many false divisions" of dual Asante and British identities. The …
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We Are Moulting Birds
This collection of sixteen poems takes the reader through some of the multiple journeys and migrations affecting Ghanaian individuals and families. Whether transient labourers with work permits, a foreign student in Ohio, a family member in Ottawa, …
Walking on Water
Water, in this selection of sixteen poems, is as impossible a foundation for identity as are migrations. The poems grapple with sorrow and anger for homes and families disrupted by the hunger that drives dangerous, and fateful, migrations. Of those …
The Migrators
The Migrators documents a long range project which puts the migrations of Dahl’s friends and colleagues into intimate conversation with the activities of our earliest hominid ancestors. Montaged prehistoric skulls and Dahl's innovative mapping of …
Notas sobre un recorrido / Notes on a Tour
This bilingual (Spanish and English) artist book is a folded guidebook to the interior of a US immigration detention centre. It is created from the perspective of an El Paso-based artist and graduate student who joins an official tour offered by …
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