Notes on Hard Times

This collection of poems by Paul Austin are empathetic and positive-leaning po, many of them performance pieces. The titles alone indicate this writer's interests and passions: to battle for social justice, to express outrage against hypocrisies and home-grown terror and to celebrate grace, love, and music as antidotes to the horrors and crimes of "those who govern." This collection of lyric poetry, along with prose-poems, is music with harsh, smart edges and tender movements.