An OptimismHere is a collection of poems about finding oneself in a lifean ordinary life that one could not have imaginedand making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present, in which Black, trans, and other minoritised forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack, An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to surviveand even thrive. Anchored by an epistolary sequence directed to the 20th