Ways to Build a Roadblock

Josh Ekroy’s debut explores the legacy of more than a decade of wars on terror, disastrous foreign policies, extremism and brutality. These poems serve as a reminder that in the midst of the most technologically-advanced digital human age, we live in a constant state of global war. These are adroit and concise poems, observed from the standpoint of an unflinching witness to the “shock and awe’ of early twenty-first century history. It is a deeply humane poetry - whether documenting love and memory, or of lives dreamt beyond conflict, How to Build a Roadblock reminds us of our capacity for compassion and duty to challenge, stand up and speak out