Sampling athletes, politicians and canonical poets (among others), Christian Barter tells the story of 21st-Century America in a poem whose range is matched by its remarkable narrative force.
(Numbers refer to–in order–section, stanza, and line.) Part 1 1,8,2: Thomas Wyatt, “Forget Not Yet.” 2,1,1: “Ships, towers, domes, theaters and temples lie / Open […]