Titus Andronicus Launches “The Monitor” in San Francisco

“I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.  On this subject, I do not wish to speak, or think, or write with moderation.  I am in earnest.  I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.”

The above declaration – from the inaugural version of William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator – is one of several Civil War-era quotes introducing tracks from The Monitor, the sprawling sophomore effort by budding New Jersey warrior poets Titus Andronicus.

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