Dread
Poems
14 January 2005
Description
A searing collection of poems about America's loss of innocence from the National Book Award-winning author of Vice.
In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, Ai conjures purity as a distant memory and the knowledge of evil as an "infinite dark night." "An undoubtedly powerful personae."—Publishers Weekly "Ai's cleansing soliloquies give voice to pain both personal and communal....[Dread] presents her most masterfully unnerving works to date."—Booklist "Dread has the characteristic moral strength that makes Ai a necessary poet."—The New York Times Book Review
Also By: Ai 
The Collected Poems of Ai
Hardback, 2014
“Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies.”—Joy HarjoVice: New and Selected Poems
E Book, 2014
Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry.No Surrender: Poems
E Book, 2013
"Smart, funny, angry, political, and utterly poetic . . . both haunting and humorous." —The Rumpus
The Collected Poems of Ai
E Book, 2013
“Ai is a truthteller picking her way through the burning rocks of racial and sexual lies.”—Joy Harjo
No Surrender: Poems
Paperback, 2012
"Smart, funny, angry, political, and utterly poetic . . . both haunting and humorous." —The Rumpus
