My Favorite Warlord

A third collection from an award-winning poet, author of Sightseer in this Killing City,  whose "gift is breathtaking" (Naomi Shihab Nye)   The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet's sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria's rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan's sixteenth-century warlord Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet's father's dementia; "Here on Earth" embraces post-racial America and the speaker's own sense of di