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Cover Title Contents Foreword: A Matter of Spirit, by Ha Jin Introduction: Liberation, by Mark Ludwig PART I: “so they might know what liberation is”

On Being Asked to Write a Poem on the Theme of Liberation After Liberation The Song About the Child Libretto After Ferguson, in Culver City Studios First Drink The Last Resort The Unknown Dancing “fancy” Flight

PART II: “We are the drums of our ancestors’ hearts”

Sketch for Terezín Child Survivor’s Testimony Legacy Poem of Disconnected Parts Horse-Fly Lament Moon Landing 1969 Death by Fire Reading About Terezín The Foundation

PART III: “No country Untouched”

Trayvon-Redux Moksha The Account of a Recent Travel The Fisherman 276 In Waiting Alphabets to a Home Doaa There Is No Cure for MS Road FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration October After Mike Brown’s Death Landays Refugees from Little League Traces of the Tibetan Year of the Rat

PART IV: “a ghost of gunmetal drones overhead”

Poem Memorial Haibun De-Mobbed A Lament for Military Secretaries Momma Galya Armolinskaya Sunday Morning in a Time of War The Mountain When Every Story Begins With Wolf

PART V: “Death sails into the gilded ballroom in purple satin”

Liberation—and Return? Those Who Return to Him Empty Leaving Limerick in the Rain: A Letter to Ireland Oratorio Empty Garden People Can Tolerate Everything . . . The Dark No Casualties Reported Samurai Song La Valse Emancipation, a Remembrance One Photograph of a Rooftop Orders of the Day

PART VI: “Speak when broken”

Take This Poem and Copy It The Empty Cot Autobiography Mother Tongue what it was For My Daughter

PART VII: “think of the trapped wren”

Does Grace Bamboo, the Dance Free as a Bird Radiation Tjulpu Good Morning Clouds Confessions of a Ruby-throat Songbird Regreen

PART VIII: “towards a promised freedom”

Long Live Life! A fourteen-line poem on independent study Hazel McCausland Lummis at the Arc de Triomphe Soundtrack for Leaving Earth Story Rune Sonnets from the River in Our Blood The Day of Light Ama-ar-gi Free, Free, Free

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