People Wake Up with the President

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People Wake Up with the President

By Wang Wang

A book of witness that explores the fragile intersection between private grief and public history. With emotional precision and restrained language, Wang Wang reveals how individual suffering echoes within the turbulence of an era.

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From the Back Cover

At the heart of the collection lies All that is about you will be reborn, a sequence shaped by the accidental death of a three-year-old child. Through clarity rather than ornament, the poet turns personal mourning into a universal elegy — both a requiem for loss and a quiet act of resistance against forgetting.

Balancing simplicity with sharp intensity, these poems move between brief, striking forms and longer meditative works. Each line carries weight. Grief, dignity, truth, memory, and moral endurance unfold against a landscape shaped by power, silence, and collective uncertainty.

In an age of distortion and noise, People Wake Up with the President insists that poetry remains a vital form of testimony — illuminating darkness, preserving the human voice.

About the Author

Wang Wang is a poet whose work observes public life, private feeling, political time, and the strange intimacy between history and ordinary mornings.

Publication Details

Publisher: Bobcat Press
Publication date: April 13, 2026
Format: Paperback, 262 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8-9992007-4-7
Language: English

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