Download or read book Exiles of Eden written by Ladan Ali Osman and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally experimental collection steeped in Somali narrative tradition, Osman gives voice to the experiences and traumas of displaced people over multiple generations. The characters in these poems encounter exile’s strangeness while processing the profoundly isolating experience of knowing that that once you are sent out of Eden, you can’t go back.