These new poems by Patrick Hansel are all really one poem, a sequence that is at its heart a great tribute of a son's love for his father unlike any I've read before.
War, the Great Depression, homelessness, the hazards of farming, hair cutting and day work, this is the essential American immigrant story, a story of strife and rage and glory.
the eyes of the dead.
will open like broken wings - And the earth remembers.
Yes, and so do poets, remember and seek Justice, mercy, bread.
