Seth Abramson

In the third volume of his Proof series, New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson takes readers on a deep dive into the Ukraine scandal, revealing it to be more sinister, complex, and transnational than previously thought. Abramson’s research on Trump administration corruption positions the Ukraine scandal as the foreseeable culmination of years of clandestine machinations involving scores of players, from Beijing to Budapest, Ankara to Caracas, Warsaw to Jerusalem, Kyiv to Riyadh, and Moscow to D.C.While many know about the July 2019 telephone call that ignited the Ukraine scandal, most don’t know about the concurrent attempts by members of Trump’s inner circle to take over Ukraine’s national gas company and bolster dangerous pro-Kremlin Ukrainian oligarchs—moves that would have benefited Putin and destabilized Ukraine’s government and economy.In Beijing, Trump’s dealings with the Chinese government not only enriched him and his family, but also culminated in him successfully seeking 2020 election interference from Xi Jinping in the form of closely held information about Joe Biden. In Venezuela, many of the actors involved in the Ukraine scandal engaged in similarly secretive, Kremlin-friendly negotiations that undermined U.S. policy. In Syria and Iraq, Trump’s personal indebtedness to autocrats in Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE cost untold lives. And Abramson brings the story back to an increasingly fractured and depleted United States, where the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the staggering domestic consequences of the Trump administration’s foreign machinations.In Proof of Corruption, Seth Abramson lays bare Trump’s decades-long pattern of corruption. This globe-spanning narrative is an urgent warning about the unprecedented threat posed by a corrupt president and his administration.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER" Spirited, thorough, and thunderously foreboding. " -- Kirkus ReviewsFor the first time, the full, explosive record of the how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for financial gain and covert election assistance.Looking back at this moment, historians will ask if Americans knew they were living through the first case of criminal conspiracy between an American presidential candidate turned commander in chief and a geopolitical enemy. The answer might it was hard to see the whole picture. The stories coming in from across the globe have often seemed clandestine meetings in foreign capitals, secret recordings in a Moscow hotel, Kremlin agents infiltrating the Trump inner circle...Seth Abramson has tracked every one of these far-flung reports, and now in, Proof of Collusion , he finally gives us a record of the unthinkable--a president compromising American foreign policy in exchange for financial gain and covert election assistance. The attorney, professor, and former criminal investigator has used his exacting legal mind and forensic acumen to compile, organize, and analyze every piece of the Trump-Russia story. His conclusion is the case for collusion is staring us in the face. Drawing from American and European news outlets, he takes readers through the Trump-Russia scandal chronologically, putting the developments in context and showing how they connect. His extraordinary march through all the public evidence -How Trump worked for thirty years to expand his real estate empire into Russia even as he was rescued from bankruptcy by Putin's oligarchs, Kremlin agents, and the Russian mafia.-How Russian intelligence gathered compromising material on him over multiple trips.-How Trump recruited Russian allies and business partners while running for president.-How he surrounded himself with advisers who engaged in clandestine negotiations with Russia.-How Trump aides and family members held secret meetings with foreign agents and lied about them.By pulling every last thread of this complicated story together, Abramson argues that--even in the absence of a report from Special Counsel Mueller or a thorough Congressional investigation--the public record already confirms a quid pro quo between Trump and the Kremlin. The most extraordinary part of the case for collusion is that so much of it unfolded in plain sight.

Seth Abramson shows how Trump has conspired and colluded with leaders from Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, from even before he won the presidency In late 2015, convicted pedophile, international dealmaker, and cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation George Nader convened a secret meeting aboard a massive luxury yacht in the Red Sea. Nader pitched Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and other Middle Eastern leaders a plan for a new pro-U.S., pro-Israel alliance of Arab nations that would fundamentally alter the geopolitics of the Middle East while marginalizing Iran, Qatar, and Turkey. To succeed, the plan would need a highly placed American politician willing to drop sanctions on Russia so that Vladimir Putin would in turn agree to end his support for Iran. They agreed the perfect American partner was Donald Trump, who had benefited immensely from his Saudi, Emirati, and Russian dealings for many years, and who, in 2015, became the only U.S. presidential candidate to argue for a unilateral end to Russian sanctions and a far more hostile approach to Iran.So begins New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson’s explosive new book Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Threatens American Democracy, a story of international intrigue whose massive cast of characters includes Israeli intelligence operatives, Russian oligarchs, Saudi death squads, American mercenary companies, Trump’s innermost circle, and several members of the Trump family as well as Trump himself—all part of a clandestine multinational narrative that takes us from Washington, D.C. and Moscow to the Middle Eastern capitals of Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Jerusalem, Cairo, Tehran, and Doha. Proof of Conspiracy is a chilling and unforgettable depiction of the dangers America and the world now face.

An anthology of dynamic, forward-thinking writingBAX 2020, guest-edited by Joyelle McSweeney and Carmen Maria Machado, is the sixth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster of new and established authors―including Anne Boyer, Alice Notley, and Raquel Salas Rivera― BAX 2020 presents an expansive view of high-energy writing.from Okazaki Fragments by Kanika AgrawalThese proceedings in natureThese proceedings in cold biologyThese proceedings in chemical societyThese proceedings in physical communicationWe refer to the concentration of residuesWe observe that one sediments faster than the otherWe presume as fact that most of what we do is in growing incomplete short chainsWe further support the conclusionWe indicate direction also by another methodWe are grateful to Drs.

Winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize"From the first line of the first poem, this book takes us into mythical mankind is walking backward, and it's back into the garden, yet this is not regressive, nor is it redemptive. A little later, an apple appears . . . Seth Abramson's genius lies in the ability to condense the power of our culture's founding concepts into their particulars, and then to show how those particulars are every bit as alive today, and as relevant. And he shows it more through language's muscle than through its meaning, for while he says a lot in this collection, it's the torque and snap of the medium, used as a material for art rather than as a vehicle for ideas, that keeps the reader on the page, becoming a part of it." -- Cole Swensen

Here is a book that is truly quietly deeply subtle. It appears to operate along the lines of here is how one thing follows another; it appears to rely on anticipated cause and effect to spring us forth from one fraction of a split second’s thought to the next. There are many and then actions in this book. What follows comes as a surprise sometimes even when it shouldn't. For instance, at one poem’s conclusion it An archer shoots. That’s what an archer does. And this is astonishing. And then it is almost heartbreaking and then one must do a double take and then there is poetry. ―Dara Wier A few rare holdouts to the contrary, American culture is loud, unsubtle, insensitive, needy, exhausting, cheaply convenient, unreflective, and above all, distracted. What has been happening behind the scenes during all the years we haven’t been paying attention? What world have we given ourselves and what have we given up in that shallow exchange? Such observations are deeply implied by the poems in Seth Abramson’s Thievery. At the bottom of this book is the sense that we’ve been ripped off and don’t even know it yet. That we have allowed it has left us stunted, morally and spiritually, with no greater sense of wonder than a Styrofoam cup. Abramson is not preaching, he is telling the melancholy, lonely truth.―Maurice Manning

Poetry. "Working in the vivid and revivifying borderlands of such American adventures as Paul Metcalf's Genoa and Ed Dorn's Gunslinger, THE SUBURBAN ECSTASTIES propounds a syllabic heroism, one in which even the gentlest, most lyric proposals set forth towards ecstasy. These pages glow with immediate mastery"--Donald Revell.

There are so many different graduate creative writing programs out there! How do I find the right one for me?Bringing together data from both Master's and doctoral creative writing programs and interviews with program applicants, students, and faculty, this is a complete practical guide to choosing a graduate creative writing program and putting together a successful application.The Insider's Guide to Graduate Degrees in Creative Writing answers frequently asked questions on such topics · Application prerequisites· Program sizes and durations· Funding· Acceptance rates· Cost of living· Program curricula and demographics· Workshopping techniques· Student-faculty ratios· Residency options· Postgraduate fellowship placement· Postgraduate job placement· Programs' reputations and historiesThe book also includes comprehensive and up-to-date hard data on the hundreds of terminal-degree graduate creative writing programs available throughout the US, UK, and internationally, making this an essential read for anyone planning to pursue a low- or full-residency graduate creative writing degree.

"America has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation."-- Barn Owl Review"A major American voice."-- Colorado Review"Champions an arts movement called 'metamodernism.'"--The British Association for Modernist Studies"A magna-cum-weirdo."-- Salon"A radical."--Tony Hoagland"Like looking at my own DNA tossed into a paper bag and shaken up."--Ron Silliman"A deep thinker."--Sturgill Simpson"A master."--Donald Revell"We can credit Abramson with a pre-emptive investment in metamodernism."--J.T. Welsch, York St. John University (UK)"Uncommonly interested in hard questions, and harder answers, about how to live."-- Publishers Weekly"Contextualizes a metamodern poetics."-- Notes on Metamodernism"Barmy."-- Jacket2"Muscular energy."--Peter Gizzi"Displays a command of simple language that continues to grow beyond mastery."--The New Hampshire Center for the Book

"A deep thinker...and a philosopher." — Rolling Stone "A magna-cum-weirdo." — Salon "Mind-bending..." — Entertainment Weekly "A major American voice." — Colorado Review "A virtuoso." — Los Angeles Review of Books "A powerful voice." — Notre Dame Review "Champions an arts movement called 'metamodernism.'" — British Association for Modernist Studies "Uncommonly interested in hard questions, and harder answers, about how to live." — Publishers Weekly

"A deep thinker...and a philosopher."-- Rolling Stone"A magna-cum-weirdo."-- Salon"Mind-bending..."-- Entertainment Weekly"A major American voice."-- Colorado Review"A virtuoso."-- Los Angeles Review of Books"A powerful voice."-- Notre Dame Review"Champions an arts movement called 'metamodernism.'"-- British Association for Modernist Studies"Uncommonly interested in hard questions, and harder answers, about how to live."-- Publishers Weekly