Hindsight: Poems

A meditation on damage, aging, and injustice from a poet whose work “live[s] in a realm of classical purity” (Anthony Hecht). Hindsight arises from a tormented time in our country’s history. Some poems contemplate the shocks of the COVID-19 assault. Others consider our nation, which is torn to pieces politically. The poems in this collection attempt to find a language to describe the breakage. But political fracture occurs because of more fundamental dislocations: for this book, most crucially,