Trigger

Aaron Coleman's St. Trigger, winner of the 2015 Button Poetry Prize, investigates race and gender in contemporary America through a constantly shifting series of structures, forming its own boundaries in one poem only to break and reshape them in the next. Narrative shatters into pure lyric and refo

In the middle of the 21st century, a team of scientists develops the ultimate protective weapon--a device that causes all nitrate-based bombs and explosives nearby to detonate automatically. It seems like a benevolent invention--one that will protect mankind against weapons of mass destruction. But

It' s 2018: thirty-two American aid workers are massacred in Uganda by a terrorist organization. Six weeks later, stock prices on Wall Street fall; are they being manipulated by the Chinese government in retaliation for U.S. intervention in Uganda? As the president takes drastic action, the confront