Last Days

Last Days is a poetry collection that treats imagination as a practice for facing today's political and environmental crises. Tamiko Beyer's poems dig into the forces behind the present moment, naming white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, corporate power and capitalism. They call on ancestors, birds, organizers and lovers to help imagine a new world.

The poems ask how the future might be changed so that it is more beautiful, more just and more compassionate than we can now picture. Alongside these, the book includes social-justice poems that question positions of white privilege and racial oppression, written from the perspective of a mixed-race woman.