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?
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“Wing speaks into the present experience of our world in a way that deepens our understanding of both the past and the future. . . . Yet Honk If You’re Awake! is not just a book of political witness. What I love most about Wing’s writing is the vividness with which he depicts ordinary life as the essential thread connecting us as human beings.”
—Sherri McLendon, book review in the Lake Claire Clarion
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