Instructions for Seeing a Ghost (Volume 27) (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry)This poetry collection is the record of an Americans return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a virtuoso display of lyric and formal inventiveness, Bellin Okas poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty. Steve Bellin Okas poems hold in balance an intensified language and a passionate voice that bring together the struggles