The five poem-essays of Chris Nealon's
The Shore
give space and voice to the complexity of contemporary life, admitting bafflement and dismay but also creating openings for indiscreet hope. Queer and anti-capitalist, they urge us not to be ruled by our fears, while always ethically navigating the forces—race, class, age, gender, and others—that put us each in different places of power. Nimbly exploring connections among beauty, friendship, and politics,
gives our era of crisis a language at once vernacular and philosophical, in a form that's both teeming and fluid.