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...