Dread
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A searing collection of poems about America's loss of innocence from the National Book Award-winning author of Vice.The New York TimesDread has the characteristic moral strength that makes Ai a necessary poet. This strength is the real substance of the book. Here is an imagination that has consistently fought its way into the most terrible places of human experience, that has entered the skin not only of the stricken but of those who strike them with an unflinching commitment. We feel in this book, as perhaps never before in Ai's work, the presence of the writer and her anguished condition. It might not be all that useful these days for us to be entering the skin of a sheriff unleashing a race riot. It is illuminating, though, and in fact humanizing, to reflect on the theatricality born of pure indignation that makes such a reading experience possible. One can only feel grief for Ai that the world offers her so much subject matter, but that she has had the courage to confront it again and again is astonishing. — Vijay Seshadri
Dread15Delusion22Fairy Tale29Relativity34Family39The Saga of Charlie Smith43Disgrace48Greetings Friend53Grandfather Says59The Secret61Intercourse66True Love69Rude Awakening72Gender/Bender75Fifty-three78Passage81Lullaby83The Broker85The Calling88The White Homegirl90The Greenwood Cycle92The Psychic Detective: Identity101The Psychic Detective: Fantasy105The Psychic Detective: Divinity109The Psychic Detective: Destiny113The Psychic Detective: Infinity118
