"Seething Nation! Vast & Flowing! Day & Night & Dawn!"
Poet Edward Sanders tells the story of America in incandescent
verse. Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious,
heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders' three-volume,
America: A History in Verse uniquely and brilliantly tells "the
story of America...a million stranded fabric / woven by billions of
hands & minds." It is by turns angry, wistful, defiant and
extremely funny re-inventions of historical and biographical
worlds, a highly original mix of chronicle, anecdote, document,
reportage, paean and polemic. Volume 3, 1962-1970 begins with "the
time of a randy young president with a bad back / who attracted the
squint-eyed scorn / & even the hatred of the / National
Security Grouch Apparatus," of "a strange man named Johnson / &
then the reappearance of an even stranger man named Nixon." It was
the time of Vietnam, civil rights, space shots, and evil-"the only
word for some of it." But it was also the time of the poet's youth
and Oh! what bliss to be young, alive, and high in those
excruciatingly interesting times, those days "when we searched for
meaning / in the sawdust floors of rebel cafes / or the stardust
soars of psychedelic haze." What a whirling hurry of years it was,
what a flash of time! And what a necessary, twenty-first-century
Whitman Sanders is, channeling Clio for our great nation, "where so
many sing without cease / work without halt / shoulder without
shudder / to bring the Feather of Justice to every / bell tower,
biome & blade of grass." Long may Sanders sing us the 1960s,
and long may his America "dwell in peace, freedom & equality /
out on its spiraling arm / in the Milky Way."
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