<p>Second edition of Ishmael Annobil's groundbreaking eulogy to his father Jacob Quao Annobil a World War II veteran who passed away in 1993. First published in 1998 it establishes the master poet's unique virtuoso style as it meanders with level-headed pathos through a labyrinth of social and societal exigencies plots betrayals pogroms and the mysteries of birth and death on his way to hope. He knows where to find hope and where to abandon it.</p>