Best Barbarian: Poems race and with all that—not to

and with all that—not to mention the gold chains and diamond earrings—no one’s gonna outshine him

practicing courage

none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day

Merle Hoffman has been at the forefront of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s

Best Barbarian: Poems race and with all that—not toSigned hardcover copy of Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves SUMMARY The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulfs Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U. S.Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man. Daring and formally elegant, Best Barbarian asks the reader: Who has not been an