ASIN: B074SFZGN4
Publisher: Unparagoned
Pages: 414
"In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See."So said the poet Roethke, and his words echo in this searing indictment of empire through the lens of poetry…Through three imperial presidencies,The poet cries, voice in the wilderness,Reed swaying in the wind, a bruisèd reed,His motion stirred to music.Author, poet, and former Reuters journalist Abdiel LeRoy takes us through the inferno of U.S. politics, along with all its absurdities and horrors…Daring to see and state the obvious,Decry hypocrisy, prophetically to seeNot just the future but the now,The awful now and make some sense of it.The moods range from bawdy wordplay and light-hearted satire to searing irony and melancholic lament. Yet the reader is entertained throughout...The world a stage on which plays outCongressional pantomime, a knotUnable to untie itself.In this third volume of LeRoy's 20-year Verses Verses Empire series, we ...
