The poems in connect moments of separation and union in a life lived between Turkey and America. Taking its organizing principle from the grammar of nomadic life, reveals that mobility is the most efficient strategy for sustaining contradictory existences. Here, we learn that poetry is a landscape of inhabitation, and perpetual exile is one's home. is a scholar, writer, and translator. He is best known for his award-winning translation of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's novel . He is a faculty member at Duke Universitywhere he researches, teaches, and writes on Turkish Studies.