Dread: Poems BISAC-NAT039000 In the aftermath

In the aftermath

but no matter how hard she tries to forget the past

and ultimately triumphant

They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them

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Dread: Poems BISAC-NAT039000 In the aftermathIn poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, Ai conjures purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an infinite dark night. An undoubtedly powerful personae. Publishers Weekly Ai's cleansing soliloquies give voice to pain both personal and communal.[Dread] presents her most masterfully unnerving works to date. Booklist