An Optimism: Poems

Here is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life—an ordinary life that one could not have imagined—and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present—in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack—An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to survive—and even thrive. Anchored by an epistolary sequence directed to the 20th century poet and activist Pauli Murray, and loo...