Wave of Blood

"A memoir about being alive right now, looking at the news on your phone each day, and trying to live a moral life."

Curated by Emily Witt, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Health & Safety, for Well Read. 
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Is it the computerization of the planet
Or a loosening of my fidelity to suffering
I don’t understand the intensity
I’ve hidden here but I know I despaired
Of finding a physical place to keep
My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise
When you stop looking at them . . .

Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, Wave of Blood is a furious and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness.