What do we carry when we leave a place and what refuses to leave us?
In The Countries We Carry, Wayne Jackson brings together lyric essays and poems about migration, grief, family, race, love, faith, teaching, memory, and the long work of becoming.
Moving from Orlando, Florida to Colombia, Guatemala, Germany, Croatia, and Western Alaska, Jackson writes from the borders between worlds: between father and son, marriage and solitude, belief and doubt, survival and freedom, the country of one's birth and the countries a person learns to carry inside.
These pages reckon with childhood, Black fatherhood, loss, cultural distance, classrooms at the edge of America, love across languages, and the complicated inheritances passed from one generation to the next. Political essays stand beside intimate confession. Poems move through the collection like weather. Travel becomes more than movement it becomes a way of translating the self.
This Expanded Edition also includes the complete Thresholds collection, a sequence of lyric essays exploring faith, family, solitude, love, community, technology, and the rooms we enter or remain standing just outside as we become someone new.
For readers drawn to literary nonfiction that combines emotional intimacy, cultural observation, and lyric precision, The Countries We Carry asks an enduring question:
How many places, people, losses, and former selves can a person carry and still keep walking?
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