✍ Scribed by Erika Meitner
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Erika Meitner's fourth book grapples with the widespread implications of commercialism and over-consumption, particularly in exurban America. Documentary poems originally commissioned byVirginia Quarterly Reviewexamine 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.
Because it is an uninhabited place, because it
makes me hollow, I pried open the pages of
Detroit: the houses blanked out, factories
absorbed back into ghetto palms and scrub-
oak, piles of tires, heaps of cement block.
Vines knock and enter through shattered
drop-ceilings, glassless windows. Ragwort
cracks the street's asphalt to unsolvable
puzzles.
Erika Meitnerwas a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her work has appeared inAmerican Poetry Review,Ploughshares,Tin House,The Best American Poetry 2011,Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech.
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