Weapons Grade

Svoboda has such range - of subject, of emotion (from whimsical play to chillingly dead serious) - that these poems take you on a wild ride, fast and dangerous, but always in control. This is a goddamn terrific book! - Thomas Lux, author of God Particles ""Weapons Grade is both whistleblower and elegy, a tour de force in the expansive in-your-face tradition of Susan Griffin and Garry Trudeau. Svoboda is an indefatigably American writer of conscience and acuity - a documentarian and saboteur, satirist and sharp-tongued citizen, her poems dangerous and heartbreaking."" - Maureen Seaton, author of Venus Examines Her Breast ""'Let the continent flex its bicep, / a man built on steroids.' This is Terese Svoboda's grave view of America today, in her new collection Weapons Grade (the name of a grisly atrocity game), but she makes poems that laugh anyway!... Sweet - or sharp - tempered comedy empowers Svoboda to address the direst subjects in a prophetic and scary book full of hilarious noises."" - Caroline Knox, author of Quaker Guns