Where the Road Turns is a rich and textured collection of poems interested in gender roles  issues of cultural identity  and migration The book opens with the poem “Cheede  My Bride: A Grebo Man Laments—1985 ” a narrative poem from the perspective of a Grebo man who contemplates the role of his wife in society: “in Monrovia  women wear pants and a man / may walk around  twisting like a woman” and “they say women fell trees and men walk / upon them like bridges