Description A poetic deconstruction of America through one of its key documents - in the tradition of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Allen Ginsburg - this collection by noted poet-performer Jen Benka consists of one poem (in sequence) for each of the 52 words that comprise the Preamble to the U.
She expresses a profound regard for the possibility of America, while delineating the many ways in which America fails to deliver on its promise - and below that, what is happening to the individual psyches within a nation that has lost faith in itself..
Her revision of America\'s secular prayer finds the unspoken hopes and frustrations of people marginalized from the political process.
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Description A poetic deconstruction of America through one of its key documents - in the tradition of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Allen Ginsburg - this collection by noted poet-performer Jen Benka consists of one poem (in sequence) for each of the 52 words that comprise the Preamble to the U
