Poems. Selections

Lake Michigan / Daniel Borzutzky.

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

©2018

81 pages ; 23 cm.

BEIN Zac B649 L1487 2018: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1." Paperbound.

Poems arranged like a play in two acts, each with nine scenes.

Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of 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 explore the themes of estrangement, state violence and capitalist exploitation, and take a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic city of Chicago.

English

March 21, 2019

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-79).