Dread Poems Author:Ai A searing collection of poems about America's loss of innocence from the National Book Award-winning author of Vice In poems that travel from the horrific flight of a World War II pilot to the World Trade Center attack, from the death of JFK Jr. to the poet's own bastard birth, Ai conjures purity as a distant memory and the knowle... more »dge of evil as an "infinite dark night."« less