Description

Four Way Books, paperback

Publication Date: February 15, 2022

Publisher Marketing:In the aftermath of the Stand Your Ground killing of his close friends father, poet Cassells explores, in his most fearless book to date, the brutality, bigotry, and betrayal at the heart of current America. Taking his cue from the Civil Rights and Vietnam War era poets and songwriters who inspired him in his youth, Cassells presentsThe World That the Shooter Left Us, a frank, bulletin-fierce indictment of unraveling democracy in an embattled America, in a world still haunted by slavery, by Guernica, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust, by climate catastrophe, by countless battles, borders, and broken promisesadding new grit, fire, and luster to his forty-year career as a dedicated and vital American poet.