The World That The Shooter Left Us

"Taking his cue from the Civil Rights and Vietnam War era poets and songwriters who inspired him in his youth, Cyrus Cassells presents, in a new, full-on mode, his most breathtaking and risk-taking work to date: in the wake of the Stand Your Ground killing of his close friend's father, a frank, bulletin-fierce indictment of unraveling democracy in an embattled America, in a world still haunted by slavery, by countless battles, borders, and betrayals-adding new grit, fire, and luster to his forty-year career as a dedicated and vital American poet"--