Honk If You’re Awake!

Poems for a Republic in Peril

by Stephen Wing

$15.00 (trade paperback)   178 pages
ISBN 978-0-9793907-6-0   Wind Eagle Press

For over four decades, poet Stephen Wing has borne witness to U.S. military aggression abroad, inequity and injustice at home, and the stubborn resistance of generations of citizen activists. These poems reveal the human faces of poverty and prejudice, covert and conventional war, Pentagon planning for nuclear holocaust, and the ongoing struggle to right these wrongs. Throughout, Wing speaks in the language of everyday life to anyone who cares about truth, meaning and this nation’s founding principles.

Weaving outrage and insight, vivid imagery and lyrical intensity, empathy, humor and hope, Honk If You’re Awake! casts a penetrating light on the crucial question of our time: is the country we love a democracy, or an empire?

“He is the rare poet who has something important to say, and who says it clearly and powerfully.”   Joel J. Brattin, professor of English

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