Cody Walker's 'The Trumpiad' is a collection of satirical poetry addressing the Trump presidency with wit, formal inventiveness, and moral seriousness. Walker, a poet and professor at the College of William and Mary, employs classical forms, from sonnets to villanelles, to capture the absurdities and dangers of the era. The poems are often laugh-out-loud funny, with Walker's gift for rhyme and rhythm turning headlines into memorable verse. But beneath the humor lies genuine outrage at what the poet sees as assaults on democratic norms and human dignity. Walker's classical training shows in echoes of Pope and Byron, satirists who also wielded formal verse against the powerful, while his contemporary sensibility makes the poems feel urgent rather than antiquarian. The collection includes both short epigrammatic pieces and longer sustained works, moving between quick jabs and extended examinations. Walker finds in poetry a mode of resistance to political language designed to exhaust critical faculties; his careful prosody insists on attending to words rather than letting them wash over us. Readers who appreciate political satire will find a poet equal to an era that often seemed to defy satire's ability to exaggerate.