In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the
difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses
personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving
narratives of family, nuclear history, love of country, and a dangerous
age moving too fast. Flenniken takes these challenging moments--bits and
pieces of childhood, marriage, cultural touchstones--and holds them up
to the light, seeking comfort in a complicated world that is at once
heartbreaking, confounding, and dear.