These poems, gathered from more than a half century of work, are organized into seven separate collections. Each collection is different in subject, voice, style, and tone. The first collection, Trauma, Truth, & Outrage, is foreshadowed by the dysphoric cover image and differs significantly from all the others. The thirteen poems in this collection are my attempt to speak up for those whose voices have been silenced and unheard, especially, for those victimized by social injustice, war, and genocide. They come first in this book, symbolically, because I believe that the suffering of others — the devastation of so many lives and hearts, millennia after millennia — takes precedence over my own. The reader, of course, is free to read them in whatever order she, he, or they choose, as they all strive to bear witness to human experience.