From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for poetry
Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake Michigan‘s poems continue exploring the themes from Borzutzky’s Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. But while the influences in this book (C?saire, Vallejo, Neruda) are international, the focus here is local as the book takes a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic city of Chicago.Author: Daniel Borzutzky
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 02/09/2018
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822965220
Language: English
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