Departure -- It Begins with Love -- Ballet in the Cold -- A Letter from Tthe Village of Trees -- Night Songs -- Cotonou -- The Wild Mystic -- Wishbone -- Ouidah -- Late December in Abidjan -- The World Demands from Us Our Existence -- A Little Cartography of Violence -- Nadoba -- Crossing into Togo -- The Sea Dreams of Us -- Wind Whisperer -- A Village Life -- There iIs No End Here -- On the Road to Paradise -- The Abandoned Church Camp -- Welcome -- Migrant by the Sea -- The Drowned -- On Leaving -- At the Bus Park in Bamako -- This Way to Water -- Migrant at the Sahara -- Someday the Desert Will Sing -- Ait-Ben-Haddou -- A Train Stop in the Sahara -- At the Edge of the Desert -- Mist -- Asilah -- The Wanderer of Bissau -- Small Hearts of Animals -- The Gallery at the End of Time -- Remembrance -- From Darkness into Light -- In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky -- A Stranger in Aba -- Last Days of General Abacha -- Remembrance -- Under Tthe Mango Tree -- Harmattan -- The River Is by Tthe Door -- Falling Dusk -- At Midnight I Dreamt of Rapture -- Before the Arrival of Rain -- The Gathering of Bastards -- Waiting for Rain -- At Lagos Polo Club -- Wanderer -- King Jaja -- Assimilation -- Asylee in the Evening of the World -- Beloved, It Is Summer Again -- The Migrant of Padua -- O Blue Waters, O Ships! -- In Tthe Museum of Fine Arts, I Remembered Home -- All Winter I Had No Love -- Walking along Harvard Square -- Flyway -- The Sea Letters -- Atlantic Beach -- On Belonging -- San Juan -- A Man of Good Fortune -- Before Nightfall -- Solstice -- A Phone Call from Exile -- Nomad -- Full Moon -- Isla Verde -- Lamentation -- Offerings -- Strangers -- Ode to Shadows -- Echoes -- The Revolution Is Over -- Returnee -- Salute from the Boston Cold.
Summary:
""The Gathering of Bastards" chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders, both internal and external"-- Provided by publisher.
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