1968: A History in Verse

"... this is the '68 / whose pulses still surge / in my psyche," writes author Edward Sanders. What he's done with that surge is to take memoir, anecdote, and factual research, and fashion them into an epic, book-length poem about 1968. Going in mostly chronological order, the book--and the year--play like a Greek tragedy. Indeed, we know the shots are coming, the riots, even Nixon. There are missed chances, wrong turns, broken hearts. This is an unexpectedly powerful and moving book, written history at its best.