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A review by kterbush
State of the Union: Fifty Political Poems by Joshua Beckman, Terrance Hayes, Ed Roberson, Dave Brinks, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Lucille Clifton, Rebecca Wolff, Matthea Harvey, John Ashbery, Juliana Spahr, Joe Wenderoth, Reginald Shepherd, Tracy K. Smith, Dara Wier, Rachel Zucker, Michael Palmer, Fanny Howe, Mathias Svalina, Catherine Wagner, Garrett Caples, John Yau, Tao Lin, Nick Flynn, Wanda Coleman, Meg Hamill, Forrest Gander, Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Elizabeth Willis, Eileen Myles, Don Bogen, Dan Chelotti, Sesshu Foster, Richard Siken, Anselm Berrigan, Wang Ping, Brenda Hillman, C.A. Conrad, Noelle Kocot, Edwin Torres, Matthew Rohrer, Albert Goldbarth, Mary Ruefle, Lorenzo Thomas, James Tate, Katy Lederer, Matthew Zapruder, Peter Gizzi
4.0
Some poems were a little weird but the majority were deeply moving and really captured the attitudes and spirits of the US.