{"product_id":"copia-paperback-2","title":"Copia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErika Meitner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErika Meitner's first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eInventory at the All-night Drugstore\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2002 Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry from Anhinga Press. Her second collection, \u003ci\u003eIdeal Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, was a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series and was published by Harper Collins in 2010. Her next book, \u003ci\u003eMakeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Anhinga Press in 2011. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the MFA program at the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and also earned an M.A. in Religion as a Morgenstern Fellow in Jewish Studies. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2011, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Best African American Essays 2010, Tin House, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner, \u003c\/i\u003e among other journals and anthologies. She is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.9 x 8.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56183872717105,"sku":"9781938160462","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/EspePbjemP9781938160462.webp?v=1788907582","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/copia-paperback-2","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}