Dread

In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet''s own bastard birth Ai conjures purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an infinite dark night. An undoubtedly powerful personae.Publishers Weekly Ai''s cleansing soliloquies give voice to pain both personal and communal....[Dread] presents her most masterfully unnerving works to date.Booklist Dread has the characteristic moral strength that makes Ai a necessary poet.The New York Times Book Review