America Is the Poem
America Is the Poem takes the reader through a full year, from spring to winter, in poems rich with vivid imagery and a sense of the sacred in ordinary things. The title poem was written on the occasion of Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration and is an ode to "flyover country" and the forgotten working class, heralding a new beginning for America.
Joseph Massey
4/22/20251 min read
America Is the Poem takes the reader through a full year, from spring to winter, in poems rich with vivid imagery and a sense of the sacred in ordinary things. The title poem was written on the occasion of Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration and is an ode to "flyover country" and the forgotten working class, heralding a new beginning for America.
"Joseph Massey's poems do what poetry is called to do: they make us see with new eyes. Like the writers of classic haiku, Massey's currency is the detail of the world around him, and he employs both an enviable diction and acute observation in these poems. But his work also takes on enormous psychological and spiritual depth. Devoid of ego, concerned only with finding truth in neglected sights and spaces, this book is an antidote to the noise and confusion of the world, and the artifice of so much else that is written. A deeply rewarding, and ultimately moving, read."
—Sally Read, editor of 100 Great Catholic Poems
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