One Class collects MacAfee’s major poems written between 1965 and 2008—ecstatic, serious and often funny poems about war and peace, sexual liberation, utopias and murderous class divisions. From national collapse to a chronicle of Orwellian maladies, surreal comic tics requiring every attempt at explanation, Norman MacAfee’s epics set out in modular voice toward screenplay, opera and celebration.
Norman MacAfee’s other works include The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now, and co-translations of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poems (FSG), the letters of Jean-Paul Sartre, and Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables (Signet).
