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“Jafar Alam speaks with the duty of the poet, the duty of honesty. In his sweeping anthology, he explores the echoes of moments, the contour of memory, and our most cherished desiderata. Each poem is a journey, and each leads to the heart-sculpted truth. There is no end here, only the heart left trembling at dusk at the emotion of the eternal shared by all who journey. Through his words, we are reminded of our own depths. We are stirred. And like the river, our souls grow deeper.” —Tristan Raghunan (Halal Meat, Heart Like A Drum) “Words that come from the heart, enter the heart—this book is proof of the statement. A captivatingly rich collection of poetry that touches the soul.” —Maryam Noori (Night of Sawa)
It’s 1891 and fourteen-year-old Red Dove joins survivors of the tragedy of Wounded Knee to tour Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. In Red Dove, Listen to the Wind, her Lakota grandfather’s medicine pouch taught her the value of empathy. Now, in book two of the trilogy, she must find the courage to face injustice--and speak her truth.
His name is Topiltzin. He is the son of the Dragon, a blue-eyed Mesoamerican hero. He is also a godless ballplayer, a wanderer, a rogue warrior. He will become known as the Plumed Serpent, the man who became a god, who transcended death to become the Morning Star. In the world of the Fourth Sun, Topiltzin is the unconquered hero of the rubberball game. When he comes with his companions to a city to play, children flock to meet him, maidens cover the roadway with flowers for him to tread on, and people gather to watch the mighty Turquoise Lords of Tollan. They are the undefeated champions of the ancient game of ritual, a game so fanatically revered that spectators would often wager their own children on its outcome. To lose meant decapitation. The Turquoise Lords of Tollan never lost. At least until now. The Smoking Lord, descended from Highland Mountain kings, has come with vast armies. He has learned of the splendid Tolteca from a priest who tried to teach him the true way of the one god. After offering the old man up as a sacrifice to the midnight sun, Smoking Mirror has now come north to see if the legends are true. An army has come, and a new age. Topiltzin witnesses its horrors. He finds cities destroyed, villagers raped and ritualistically slaughtered by sorcerer priests sent as heralds to offer up human sacrifice. Unable to stop the blood slaughter of innocents, realizing the vast armies of the Shadow Lords will annihilate even the mighty Tolteca, Topiltzin becomes obsessed with one final objective, one last move in the rubberball game: the death of the Smoking Mirror.
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.