Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance

Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson brought together eighteen editors, of which Cárdenas is one, from diverse aesthetic and cultural backgrounds to solicit and curate the work of more than 350 poets in roughly two months. They note in their introductory essay “Poetry and Resistance,” that this book “is first and foremost a collective, insurgent call that is part and parcel of a sovereign people’s challenge to a narcissistic oligarch and his lackeys, who smirk now from their temporary perches of power. Its pages are bound in direct, literal ways, to the historic worldwide marches of January 22nd—and they stand as evidence that the vast majority of American poets (and artists and writers of all kind) revile the new reactionary dispensation.”

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“This anthology represents a model for activism and mobility in a time of political emergency.” –Dante Di Stefano