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paper \u2022 120 pages \u2022 16.95
ISBN: 978-1-954245-09-9
eISBN: 978-1-954245-17-4
February 2022 \u2022 Poetry<\/p>\n
Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n [\/column]<\/p>\n [column col=”3\/4″]<\/p>\n In the aftermath of the Stand Your Ground killing of his close friend\u2019s father, poet Cassells explores, in his most fearless book to date, the brutality, bigotry, and betrayal at the heart of current America. Taking his cue from the Civil Rights and Vietnam War era poets and songwriters who inspired him in his youth, Cassells presents The World That the Shooter Left Us<\/em>, a frank, bulletin-fierce indictment of unraveling democracy in an embattled America, in a world still haunted by slavery, by Guernica, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust, by climate catastrophe, by countless battles, borders, and broken promises\u2014adding new grit, fire, and luster to his forty-year career as a dedicated and vital American poet.<\/p>\n from ELECTION<\/p>\n ….We woke to<\/p>\n Reptile-cool comets of spit, And Muslim girls taunted and slapped Non compis mentis for a king, Of chicanery, a crafty corsair\u2019s Loot-fast dynasty. To dewy-faced fifth graders In a sun-flecked fieldThe World That the Shooter Left Us<\/em><\/h1>\n
Cyrus Cassells<\/h2>\n
Reviewed by Poetry Foundation<\/a>\u00a0<\/h5>\n
Reviewed by Good River Review<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Unremitting slurs,<\/p>\n
On public buses,<\/p>\n
Flimflam, an unbridled foundry<\/p>\n
Or a vehement robber baron\u2019s<\/p>\n
Yes, we woke, incredulous,<\/p>\n
Lowering deliberately<\/p>\n
To fashion a human swastika\u2014<\/p>\n