Those Who Hold Up the Earth

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Poetry book. A running theme throughout the poems is the marginalized, the forgotten throughout the world and in the US who are walked over and treated as less than human. This extends from the poor, the Bangladeshi rickshaw driver, to immigrants who ‘White Terrorist[s]’ (a piece within the book) often target. It is particularly relevant in these trying times of heroic healthcare and essential workers and, more recently, the ongoing fight for black justice.It’s style ranges from the surreal to the symbolic and some more straight forward pieces. It illuminates the small things in life, including seasonal changes, a sick cat and Papa Gino’s workers, while bringing in larger themes of racism, xenophobia, aging and death.