Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Waberi writes passionately about his country's landscape, drawing for us pictures of -desert furrows of fire- and a -yellow chameleon sky.- Waberi's poems take us to unexpected spaces--in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is -sucked up by the eye of the sun--black...