Up from the Downtrodden

Divided into quintets,Up from the Downtroddenoffers the possibility of hope to anyone feeling hopeless in the world today. The poems within, culled from a period of inspiration and resurgence after more than a decade of hopeless struggling and despair, honor both the darkness and the light. There is a chance, when the two are integrated, to turn what is bitter in life, sweet.‘heavy metals’dissociativestaring at the wall againthey turned up the volumezero calorie heavymetals to defend against theydemonsRead more