Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America - Softcover

Virgil Suarez is a professor of creative writing at Florida State University and the author of over twenty books of prose and poetry, most recently Infinite Refuge, Palm Crows, Banyan, and Guide to the Blue Tongue. The editor of Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes, Ryan Van Cleave teaches creative writing and literature at Clemson University. He is the author of, most recently, the poetry collection Ha Ha Tonka.

"Once more Virgil Suarez and Ryan Van Cleave give us their astute and timely take on the state of affairs in contemporary America. Red, White, and Blues is a rich, readable, and wonderfully rewarding gathering of poetic voices--many of them new, all powerful--singing together in raucous harmony. It is never easy to be a countryman, a citizen, or a poet in this or any other nation; and these particularly vexed days bespeak the need for poets to sing the hard truths again and again, naming each beauty, each brutality, with equal measures of passion, conscience, and clarity."