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People Wake Up with the President
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Bobcat Press
Published: Apr 13 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
People Wake Up with the President is a book of witness that explores the fragile intersection between private grief and public history. With emotional precision and restrained language, Wang Wang reveals how individual suffering echoes within the turbulence of an era.
At the heart of the collection lies All that is about you will be reborn, a sequence shaped by the accidental death of a three-year-old child. Through clarity rather than ornament, the poet transforms personal mourning into a universal elegy-both a requiem for loss and a quiet act of resistance against forgetting.
Balancing simplicity with sharp intensity, Wang Wang's poems move between brief, striking forms and longer meditative works. Each line carries weight, revealing a voice that refuses exaggeration yet speaks with unmistakable force. Themes of grief, dignity, truth, memory, and moral endurance unfold against a landscape shaped by power, silence, and collective uncertainty.
For readers of contemporary literary poetry and political poetry, this collection offers both intimacy and historical awareness. In an age shaped by distortion and noise, People Wake Up with the President reminds us that poetry remains a vital form of testimony-illuminating darkness and preserving the human voice.
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