Dana is a modern-day living, breathing poet. I think we tend to scoff at poets that are alive because we can’t hold them up to some mystical standard . . . But her poetry transcends, for me, any lack of respect for the living. It’s beautiful and complex and personal.

This is the second book in a trilogy. It’s this far-out book that tells the history of America with poetic license and assumptions based on factual history and extrapolating beyond it with current knowledge, a modern understanding of the human experience and poetry. In one section Galeano talks about Jane Franklin, Ben Franklin’s brightest sister and closest intellectual match. He speculates [about] his freedoms as a man and her burdens and lack of choices as a woman.

The most romantic book I’ve ever read. A book for cynics and dreamers and people who are a little of both.