War Dreams

Tensions and turmoil are escalating in a country torn into by oppression and violence, while we also experience the alienating, dehumanizing impact of being afforded privilege and plunder at the expense of those around the world as well as our own. Fascists and their opposition fight in our streets. Ecological disaster looms ever more heavily. Wars threaten themselves around each corner; the state becomes more heavy-handed as it becomes more intimidated. Children and their parents are being separated at the border, put into camps, civilian militias round up immigrants and refugees at gunpoint and turn them over to border patrol agencies. The people fight back feebly. We are outraged and terrified, but also struggle with helplessness in the face of the most powerful state in human history, and the entire system it upholds, actively sending us spiraling toward our own destruction. What does it mean to look all of this dead in the eye and come out of it with hope and meaning? What does it mean to have something to fight for? What do our premonitions mean; our dreams and visions, and what can our bodies tell us if we listen? What do we mean to each other, and how are we ourselves the very thing we fight for? War Dreams explores all of this through poetry: the necessary starting place if we’re to found our theory and activism upon something truly human.