Title: PUSHBACK
Description: On the flyleaf, poet Jay Parini says that Rose's poems are "exquisitely alert to the dilemmas and problems, the agonies and injustices, of this hard time in the world. In his poems he finds a language adequate to our times. He speaks up and speaks back, and his poems quicken with a sense of engagement."
Subjects: pandemic, war, epic, racism
Places: Richmond, Washington DC, Bayreuth, Fujisan, Plaquemines
Time periods: 2019-2021