America vs. America

America vs. America is a poetry anthology like no other. While most other books in this genre focus on the politics and who's right and who's wrong. This book takes a twist and encourages individual strength and prosperity while in the grips of an ever-tightening political and social regime that seems to be sweeping the nation at this current time. As the book's cover suggests, it is a head to head battle--America the beautiful versus America the Ugly. Prosperous, theoretical and even past America versus a cold, bureaucracy-washed, hard-nosed America whose role in the world is diminishing. This book is meant to inspire as much as it is meant to criticize, to give as well as to take, to inform as well as to disprove, and to make as well as to break some of the varying social standards that we have put into place that are running us into the ground. We could have beauty and grace, as long as we don't disgrace ourselves to helplessness. There is always a wing and a leg to stand on, despite the pegs that try to prove we the people wrong. We are the creation of God; We are the product; We are the creation of the life we make.