Literary Nonfiction. A collection of lyrical verse, consoling prose, and personal meditations on American culture. "What if the art forms have so solidified as to be irrelevant to defy our political present? This question is one that so haunts David Matlin as to make his writing adequate to the monstrosity of our waning democratic years and days. IT MIGHT DO WELL WITH STRAWBERRIES contains all the components---poetic concision, political outrage, journalistic detail, self-fashioning, and a long historic vision---that make it possible to speak of language as public space: a critical wager of the imagination"--Roberto Tejada.