Poems for Political Disaster

by Monica Youn, Khadijah Queen, Lynn Melnick, et al.

"In time of crisis, we summon up our strength," wrote poet Muriel Rukeyser. This collection gathers poems--from the eve of the twenty-first century to the month following Trump's election--to mark a moment of political rupture, summoning the collective strength found in the languages of resistance and memory, subversion and declamation, struggle and hope. Poetry is a counterforce. We offer these poems to readers as Rukeyser did--"not walls, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946511013
• ISBN13: 9781946511010
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Boston Review
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher