With singular grace and musicality, these accomplished poems summon the voices of a divided country. With a storyteller’s rhythm, Lease braids humor, political bite, psychological intensity, and lyric beauty, taking us to a place of warning, critique, and elegy. is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry: , , and . His poems have also been featured on NPR and published in , and elsewhere. Lease's poem "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" appeared in , edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman.