Seeking to Make the World Anew is a collection of poems that confront the crisis of modern society, that yearn for change, and that wonder about what kind of social order might replace the one we have. This compilation serves as a testament of the author's agonizing encounters with the degradations, insults, and diseases that this world abounds in-and expresses his awe at how people come together and seek solutions through struggle. Sam Friedman includes an introductory essay about how his ideas and his art developed through his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, anti-war movements, scientific research and activism around the AIDS epidemic, and through thinking, arguing, and writing about how a new-style, freedom-loving socialist movement might be the only way to save humanity.

By Sam Friedman

Part 1 Part 1. Being: Loving and Living through the Daily Grind
Chapter 2 Work and Daily Life
Chapter 3 AIDS in an Indifferent World
Chapter 4 Ecology: The Whole World at Risk
Chapter 5 Imperial Power in Action
Chapter 6 Repression and Oppression
Chapter 7 Same Thing, Different Forms
Chapter 8 The Doldrums of the Years with Little Movement
Chapter 9 If We Fail
Chapter 10 Hopes and Fears as the System Approaches Crisis
Part 11 Part 2. Essence: Soaring and Souring and Soaring Again through Struggle
Chapter 12 Struggles in our History
Chapter 13 AIDS Struggles
Chapter 14 Future Struggles-We Hope
Part 15 Part 3: Notion: Making the World Anew