These Are Strange Times My Dear

In these pointed and wideranging essays Wendy Willis explores everything from personal resistance to the rise of political podcasts civic loneliness to the exploitation of personal data public outrage to the opioid crisisall with a poet''s gift for finding the sacred in the mundane a hope in the dark.. One of the country''s sharpest observers of politics art and the American spirit Willis returns often to the demanding question posed by Czech writer activist and politician Vaclav Havel: What does it mean to live in truth? Her view is honed by her place as a poet as a mother and when necessary as an activist. Together the essays in These Are Strange Times My Dear work within that largely unmapped place where the heartbreaks and uncertainties of one''s inner life brush up against the cruelties and responsibilities of politics and government and our daily lives.