In this anthology edited by Nigerian poet Abayomi Animashaun, thirty immigrant poets explore their influences and how they fit into the landscape of American poetry. The essays are divided into five sections titled “Self-Definition,” “Language,” “Influences,” “The Émigré Poet in America,” and “A Third Space.” Contributors include Zubair Ahmed, Kwame Dawes, Rigoberto González, Piotr Gwiazda, Fady Joudah, Ilya Kaminsky, Barbara Jane Reyes, Sun Yung Shin, and Ocean Vuong. “Nerval once said that you ought to travel so much that even your home becomes strange to you, but I have no hope other than the opposite, that is to say: once you cross borders often enough you find really that every place must be somehow home,” writes Kazim Ali in the introduction. “The poets collected here testify, both in these statements and in their own work, that such a home is possible.”
