Release Date 2014-09-09

Publisher
BOA Editions Ltd.

EAN/ISBN
978-1938160462

Summary
Erika Meitner's fourth book grapples with the widespread implications of commercialism and over-consumption, particularly in exurban America. Documentary poems originally commissioned by Virginia Quarterly Review examine the now-bankrupt city of Detroit, once the thriving heart of the American Dream. Meitner probes the hulking ruins of office buildings, tract housing, superstores, construction sites, and freeways — exposing a vacuous world of decay and abandonment — while holding out hope for re-birth from ashes.