Lake Michigan - The Poetry Shop

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Lake Michigan - The Poetry Shop

University of Pittsburgh Press

Lake Michigan

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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 (Césaire, 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.

Book Details

Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822965220
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Daniel Borzutzky
Published Date:
2018-02-09
Language:
English

About Daniel Borzutzky

A Chicago-based poet and translator of Chilean descent, Daniel Borzutzky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His collection The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016) won the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He received the 2017 National Translation Award for Poetry from the American Literary Translators Association. He is a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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