ROAD TRIP

This collection of poetry follows my life as I journey from the middle 1950s to the present. The underlying motif is transformation--in the world and me, first as a child on family road trips through the South, so long ago that they typically linger as childish recollection with a touch of magic, a testament to resilience and memory. Later poems are about me as a young adult who traveled through the turbulent 60s and 70s. Now as a millennial elder I can reflect on how each moment, each breath was an act of history-making, unbeknownst to me at the time, while I was ahistorical agent, whether as activist, artist, parent, lover, teacher, or simply an observer. Now that I near the end of the journey I can reflect on how change and agency shaped society and my experience and how I changed the world because of it.