Renowned Ghanaian poet Kofi Anyidoho's latest collection is both a lamentation and a celebration, documenting epic events in world history ranging from the abolition of slavery to the tragedy of September 11, 2001. Anyidoho tells us that the title of the work came to him more than a decade ago as a collage of voices and memories that he carried with him on his many travels, knowing that there was one place that he could claim as his own, a place of emotional anchor in a haunted, turbulent world.