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.