Stray

Bernard Farai Matambo is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College. His prose and poetry have appeared in several publications, including Copper Nickel, New Orleans Review, Ohioana Quarterly, Pleiades, and Plume.

Foreword by Kwame Dawes    
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Preamble to Stray    
All the Merry Hills    
In the Name of the Tongue    
In the Name of the Father    
Holy Ghost    
Catechism    
Ota Benga Returns to the Congo    
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You Don’t Want the Light to Find Out What You’ve Done    
Diallo    
We Must Return    
The Last Time I Saw Annamore Tsonga    
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Preamble to Fever    
The Cunning    
It Came to Pass    
A Town on the Frontier    
Feasts for the Blind    
Farther Inland    
Far Country    
My Dear Menshevik    
As a Moonflower Curious of the Night    
A Hunger    
The City    
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Preamble to In the Case Regarding My Brother    
Requiem: In the Case Regarding My Brother    
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Mugarandega    
In the Throat of the Heaven’s Guide    
Acknowledgments    
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