1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. ORIGINS AND MYTHS
  4. Naguib Mahfouz, The Return of Sinuhe
  5. The Torah, Exodus 23:9
  6. The Book of Psalms, Psalm 137
  7. Homer, from The Odyssey
  8. Sappho, Fragment 98B
  9. Xenophanes, Fragment 22
  10. Seneca the Younger, from Moral Letters to Lucilius
  11. Plutarch, from The Life of Cleomenes
  12. DARK AGES AND RENAISSANCES
  13. The Desert Fathers, Abba Longinus
  14. Abd al-Rahman I, The Palm Tree
  15. Du Fu, from Dreaming of Li Bai
  16. Bai Juyi, Song of the Lute
  17. Christopher of Mytilene, On the ex-emperor Michael Kalaphates
  18. Ibn Hamdis, Oh sea, you conceal my paradise
  19. Moses ibn Ezra, I am weary of roaming about the world
  20. Anna Komnene, from The Alexiad
  21. Attar, from The Conference of the Birds
  22. Dante, Cacciaguida’s Prophecy
  23. John Barbour, from The Bruce of Bannockburn
  24. Michael Marullus, De exilio suo
  25. EXPULSIONS, EXPLORATIONS AND MIGRATIONS
  26. William Shakespeare, from Coriolanus
  27. Andrias MacMarcuis, The Flight of the Earls
  28. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
  29. Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage
  30. Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin, from The Wonders of Vilayet
  31. Phillis Wheatley, A Farewell to America
  32. Francis Baily, The First Discoverer of Kentucky
  33. Mary Shelley, Voltaire
  34. Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
  35. Robert W. Service, The Spell of the Yukon
  36. Sol Plaatje, from Native Life in South Africa
  37. Mary Antin, from They Who Knock at Our Gates
  38. A.C. Jacobs, Immigration
  39. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, A Colonial Affair!
  40. Sargon Boulus, Du Fu in Exile
  41. Jusuf Naoum, As a Dog
  42. Luci Tapahonso, In 1864
  43. Adnan al-Sayegh, Iraq
  44. Ribka Sibhatu, In Lampedusa
  45. DYNASTIES, MERCENARIES AND NATIONS
  46. Percy Sholto, An Irish Colonel
  47. Polish Legion in Haiti, Letters Home
  48. Madame de Staël, from Ten Years’ Exile
  49. Ugo Foscolo, To Zakynthos
  50. Giacomo Leopardi, On the Monument to Dante Being Erected in Florence
  51. Adam Mickiewicz, While my corpse is here, sitting among you
  52. Pierre Falcon, General Dickson’s Song
  53. George W. Cable, from Café des Exilés
  54. Romain Rolland, from Jean-Christophe in Paris
  55. Khushwant Singh, from Train to Pakistan
  56. Tin Moe, Meeting with the Buddha
  57. Michèle Lalonde, Speak White
  58. Mahmoud Darwish, from A State of Siege
  59. Abdellatif Laâbi, from Letter to My Friends Overseas
  60. Valdemar Kalinin, And a Romani Set Off
  61. Souéloum Diagho, Exile gnaws at me
  62. Ahmatjan Osman, Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile
  63. Kajal Ahmad, Birds
  64. Omnath Pokharel, from The Short-Lived Trek
  65. REVOLUTIONS, COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS AND PERSECUTIONS
  66. Victor Hugo, To Octave Lacroix
  67. Louise Michel, Voyage to Exile
  68. Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Zola Leaves France
  69. Card No. 512210, Bisbee
  70. Emma Goldman, from Living My Life
  71. Teffi, The Gadarene Swine
  72. José Carlos Mariátegui, The Exile of Trotsky
  73. Leon Trotsky, Letter to the Workers of the USSR
  74. Victor Serge, from Mexican Notebooks
  75. Marina Tsvetayeva, Homesickness
  76. Anna Seghers, from Transit
  77. Cesare Pavese, Lo Steddazzu
  78. Yannis Ritsos, A Break in Routine
  79. Carlos Bulosan, American History
  80. Barbara Toporska, The Chronicle
  81. Silva Kaputikyan, Perhaps
  82. Alessandro Spina, The Fort at Régima
  83. Miguel Martinez, Spanish Anarchists in Exile in Algeria
  84. Martha Nasibú, from Memories of an Ethiopian Princess
  85. Elena Shvarts, Why, Let the Stricken Deer Go Weep
  86. Elias Khoury, from My Name Is Adam
  87. Ashur Etwebi, A Dog Hides Its Tail in the Darkness of Night
  88. Mohsen Emadi, from The Poem
  89. COSMOPOLITANISM AND ROOTLESSNESS
  90. Gabriela Mistral, The Foreign Woman
  91. Nelly Sachs, I’m searching for my Right to Roots
  92. Luis Cernuda, Impression of Exile
  93. Fernando Sylvan, Invasion
  94. Gisèle Prassinos, Nobody Is Going Anywhere
  95. Roque Dalton, Spite
  96. Breyten Breytenbach, from Notes from the Middle World
  97. Mimi Khalvati, The Soul Travels on Horseback
  98. Michael Schmidt, The Freeze
  99. Aamer Hussein, from Nine Postcards from Sanlucar de Barrameda
  100. Fred D’Aguiar, At the Grave of the Unknown African
  101. Farhad Pirbal, Waste
  102. Iman Mersal, The Idea of Houses
  103. Sholeh Wolpé, The World Grows Blackthorn Walls
  104. Kaveh Bassiri, 99 Names of Exile
  105. Fady Joudah, He came, the humanitarian man
  106. Jee Leong Koh, To a Young Poet
  107. Jenny Xie, Rootless
  108.  
  109. Editor’s Afterword
  110. Acknowledgements
  111. About the Publisher
  112. Copyright