{"product_id":"9781938160462","title":"Copia","description":"Author: Erika Meitner\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781938160462\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 09 Sep 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 104 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eErika Meitner's fourth book grapples with the widespread implications of commercialism and over-consumption, particularly in exurban America. Documentary poems originally commissioned by \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause it is an uninhabited place, because it\u003cbr\u003emakes me hollow, I pried open the pages of\u003cbr\u003eDetroit: the houses blanked out, factories\u003cbr\u003eabsorbed back into ghetto palms and scrub-\u003cbr\u003eoak, piles of tires, heaps of cement block.\u003cbr\u003eVines knock and enter through shattered\u003cbr\u003edrop-ceilings, glassless windows. Ragwort\u003cbr\u003ecracks the street's asphalt to unsolvable\u003cbr\u003epuzzles.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErika Meitner\u003c\/b\u003e was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2011\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925062140062,"sku":"ING-9781938160462","price":30.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781938160462.jpg?v=1782958507","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781938160462","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}