Cruel Futures YA committed parent who just doesn’t

committed parent who just doesn’t have the time for nonsense in her house or in the House of Representatives

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Cruel Futures YA committed parent who just doesn’tby Carmen Gimnez Smith A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. Cruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp witted, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces