What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump by Rafael Campo, Patrick Rosal, Chen Chen, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Dante DiStefano, William Pitt Root, Luis J. Rodriguez, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Sasha Pimentel, Sean Bates, Carolyn Forché, Luivette Resto, Jim Daniels, Naomi Ayala, Daisy Zamora, Chase Twichell, John Murillo, Gary Soto, Ruth Sanabria, Joseph Ross, Juan Felipe Herrera, Lawrence Joseph, Elisabet Velasquez, Lauren Schmidt, Ocean Vuong, Marge Piercy, Hoagland Everett, Aracelis Girmay, Denice Frohman, Cyrus Cassells, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Laurie Anne Guerrero, Sam Hamill, Yusef Komunyakaa, Julia Alvarez, Mark Turcotte, Eleanor Wilner, Marilyn Nelson, Doug Anderson, Tara Betts, Richard Villar, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Brian Clements, Patricia Smith, E. Ethelbert Miller, Richard Blanco, Benjamin Balthaser, Ruth Goring, Jan Beatty, Adam Grabowski, Seibles Tim, Brian Turner, David Mura, Danielle Legros Georges, Richard Michelson, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Naomi Shihab Nye, George Wallace, Willie Perdomo, Pamela Uschuk, Danez Smith, Don Share, Marty McConnell, Leslie McGrath, Demetria Martínez, Dorianne Laux, Afaa M. Weaver, Chard deNiord, Kwame Dawes, Julio Marzan, Samuel Hazo, Maria Nazos, Paul Martínez Pompa, Jane Hirshfield, Gabriel Ramírez, Martín Espada, Nicholas Samaras, Paul Mariani, Emmy Pérez, Hayan Charara, Robert Pinsky, Tarfia Faizullah, Katherine DiBella Seluja, George Evans, Kathy Engle

What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump

Rafael Campo, Patrick Rosal, Chen Chen, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Dante DiStefano, William Pitt Root, Luis J. Rodriguez, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Sasha Pimentel, Sean Bates, Carolyn Forché, Luivette Resto, Jim Daniels, Naomi Ayala, Daisy Zamora, Chase Twichell, John Murillo, Gary Soto, Ruth Sanabria, Joseph Ross, Juan Felipe Herrera, Lawrence Joseph, Elisabet Velasquez, Lauren Schmidt, Ocean Vuong, Marge Piercy, Hoagland Everett, Aracelis Girmay, Denice Frohman, Cyrus Cassells, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Laurie Anne Guerrero, Sam Hamill, Yusef Komunyakaa, Julia Alvarez, Mark Turcotte, Eleanor Wilner, Marilyn Nelson, Doug Anderson, Tara Betts, Richard Villar, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Brian Clements, Patricia Smith, E. Ethelbert Miller, Richard Blanco, Benjamin Balthaser, Ruth Goring, Jan Beatty, Adam Grabowski, Seibles Tim, Brian Turner, David Mura, Danielle Legros Georges, Richard Michelson, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Naomi Shihab Nye, George Wallace, Willie Perdomo, Pamela Uschuk, Danez Smith, Don Share, Marty McConnell, Leslie McGrath, Demetria Martínez, Dorianne Laux, Afaa M. Weaver, Chard deNiord, Kwame Dawes, Julio Marzan, Samuel Hazo, Maria Nazos, Paul Martínez Pompa, Jane Hirshfield, Gabriel Ramírez, Martín Espada, Nicholas Samaras, Paul Mariani, Emmy Pérez, Hayan Charara, Robert Pinsky, Tarfia Faizullah, Katherine DiBella Seluja, George Evans, Kathy Engle

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

poetry politics challenging reflective medium-paced

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This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage ...

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