Ramshackle Ode

Ramshackle OdeA sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time

a Time magazine Best Young Adult Book of All-Time

and the young queen gives us her take on politics

he's living in his office

though only one of them can hear it

to save ourselves

"Profoundly satisfying

Only he can destroy it

establishment opposition

expert instructor Michael Chaskalson teaches you how to master it

But as she grows entangled in local gossip

although special conditions are required for their evolution

Can you blame them