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An Optimism cid_6644 and sometimes they’re usAgainst our terribly ambivalent presentin which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attackAn Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to surviveand even thrive. Anchored by an epistolary sequence directed to the 20th century poet and activist Pauli Murray, and looking to the work of other trans, queer, and black feminist writers like Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and