How It Happened: The 2016 Presidential Campaign in Jest and Verse

The 2016 presidential campaign was a brazen spectacle, and fans of Erika Fine’s irreverent rhymes counted on her to guide them through it with a smile. Her poems boil down complexities to short, spot-on phrases, in perfect meter and rhyme. A loyal fan said, Who needs the news when we have Erika Fine’s poet punditry! Some of the poems are prescient-one, for example, warns Hillary Clinton about the possibility of losing. This book compiles Erika’s witty, vibrant poems into one slim volume, with prose reminders of the outlandish events that inspired the rhymes. The poems skewer all the candidates, but not equally: if you are a Trump fan, this book is probably not for you. Everyone else will smile knowingly.