A periodic, open discussion of particular poems. Two Songs of Place and Displacement. Conakry, Guinea, 2013. The 20th-century term DP, for displaced person, with its old overtones of slave labor, death camps, and forced migration, has expanded in meaning to include many forms of displacement. The condition, too, has expanded in the 21. Century, are more living people displaced than not? On that theme, here are two poems in English translation, one from.

But because lots of time has passed and I am currently In India, I want to write about the last few days. It was a very long journey to India, more then 40 hours from Pokhara, the vacation city, West from Kathmandu where I spent a week. I traveled with Keshet, a fellow volunteer.