Born Hopeless with All the Answers

A powerful blend of political protest and personal confession, offering a brutally honest look at what it means to live through America's unraveling.

Poetry that refuses to look away.

A generation's rage, grief, and stubborn hope-captured in verse.

Born Hopeless with All the Answers: Songs for a Dying Generation is a fierce and unflinching poetry collection that speaks directly to the tension, trauma, and transformation of living in modern America. James F. Miller II writes with the urgency of someone who has seen the world collapse more than once-and still insists on singing through the rubble.

Born Hopeless with All the Answers: Songs for a Dying Generation is a blistering, unfiltered collection of poems that captures what it feels like to come of age in a world on fire.

In these pages, James F. Miller II confronts the loneliness, fury, humor, tenderness, and stubborn hope of a generation raised on broken promises and taught to survive on its own.

With razor-sharp honesty and a voice forged from the backroads of the Midwest, Miller delivers poems that hit like protest slogans and confessionals at the same time-songs for the outsiders, the bruised, the politically aware, and the spiritually exhausted.

This is poetry that refuses to look away: from the collapse of culture, the failures of government, the ghosts of trauma, and the quiet moments of beauty that insist on living anyway.

Raw, defiant, and unforgettable, this collection is both a warning and a love letter-a testament to the ones still standing in a world that tells them not to.

If you've ever felt hopeless, furious, misunderstood, or painfully alive, these poems were written for you.