Author: George Caffentzis

George Caffentzis is a political philosopher and autonomist Marxist. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and a founding member of the Midnight Notes Collective. His most recent book is In At the Edge of Everything: Collected Poems (Common Notions, 2025).

Excerpts from At the Edge of Everything: Collected Poems

By: George Caffentzis, Silvia FedericiJuly 23, 2025

Throughout George Caffentzis’s poetry runs the desire for a different world and staunch refusal to compromise with the injustices of the past and the present.

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