Poetry. TOMORROWLAND is a book-length poem of bodily transit and colonial forgetting. Its names and events perpetually arrive in a new world, whose versions here combine promised lands and historical suicide. Eula moves among these real and imagined place-times with other symbolic names and unnamed figures, and Jack plays death. The primary formal note is the interrupted iambic.

"Lisa Samuels's TOMORROWLAND is a guidebook and diary from an actuality existing among real sea and ships and coastline, history, and contemporary reflection. There are named 'characters,' but the true characters are a colony, a 'we' of the newly arrived to this land. The generous and graceful syntax is a fusing agent for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The reader exults in the accomplishment of the verse."—Alice Notley

Author City: AUCKLAND NZ

Lisa Samuels grew up in the United States, Sweden, and the Middle East. She has a PhD from the University of Virginia, where she wrote her dissertation on Laura Riding, Wallace Stevens, and academic poetry criticism. She publishes on Riding and other modernist and contemporary poets as well as on subjects such as linguistic beauty, poetic analysis, and intellectual property. She taught in Utah, Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Michigan before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2000 to teach poetry writing and literature. In 2006, she took up a position as Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.