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Following the directive of Emily Dickinson to \"tell all the Truth but tell it slant,\" Cofer approaches her material from a variety of angles.  An acute yearning for a distant homeland is the poignant theme of the title poem, which opens the collection. Cofer's lines introduce us \"to a woman of no-age\" presiding over a small store whose wares—Bustelo coffee, jamon y queso, \"green plantains hanging in stalks like votive offerings\"—must satisfy, however imperfectly, the needs and hungers of those who have left the islands for the urban Northeast. Similarly affecting is the short story \"Nada,\" in which a mother's grief over a son killed in Vietnam gradually consumes her. 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