Drawn from the experiences of enduring genocide, displacement, and resocialization in the United States, "Egg from the River's Ice" acts as a demonstration of irreparability as the poems shift emphasis from past to present. Beginning as rooted in a more traditional, romantic- lyric/narrative formation, these poems--as the weight of experience presses heavier on them-- come to embody a more radical, disjunct, and often fragmented poetic.