Foster always finds a way to highlight the everyday in his poetics. True to the title, Foster's poems seethe from daily and historical injustices his speaker witnesses. What sets this book apart from the insipid-rant-and-moan model is the speaker's unrelenting desire to document and preserve these vignettes so these histories are not be repeated. Or, as Chuck D would say, "When I get mad, I put it down on the pad / Give you something that you never had"

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