Ha Jin is a Chinese-American poet and novelist. He is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. He won the National Book Award for Fiction and three Pushcart Prizes for fiction. Some of his books are Under the Red Flag, Ocean of Words, and War Trash.
“All You Have is A Country” by Ha Jin explores patriotism and how it can be negatively ingrained into someone’s personality.
You are so poor that all you have is a country.
Whenever you open your mouth
you talk about the country
to which you can no longer return.
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