We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough

Mike Young has pulled off the feat of releasing a collection of poetry and short stories in the same year. We Are All Good if They Try Hard Enough, the sincere and funny debut book, balances media-saturated satire with Martin Buber-strength notions of care and consideration. The poems ask big questions like WHY? and when the book is through, it suggests an answer: let's be friends.