The debut poetry collection from ArabAmerican poet Kareem Rahmaformerly of VICE and The New York Timesshows us the future in haiku.What awaits us is not the future we had hoped for or what we were promised but the terrible consequences of weve done to ourselves.Managing to be both a hopeful prayer for change and direct warning to the reader New Yorkbased author Kareem Rahma makes masterful work of the haiku form to build a very possible future world dominated by corporations an earth depleted of natural resources and humans turned into zombies glued to their screens. Elegant but caustically humorous even in the darkness Rahma remains hopeful that we can still keep the promises we made in the past.Paired with JeanMarc Cts 19thcentury illustrations of an imagined year 2000 We Were Promised Flying Cars is not just for poetry and science fiction fans but anyone interested in what tomorrow might look like.