Poetry. From the Confederacy, to Ground Zero, to the ruins of urban sprawl, this book is a monument to collapse—itself a terrible art: "Gen. Sherman painted landscapes." Sometimes, in the breakage of the human, nature returns: a loving catalog of trees and birds as well as shuttered franchise restaurants. Sometimes, when human relations break down, they create terrible yearning. Each type of war, in public space and private interaction, is given a new, evidentiary lament: "O Sunglass Hut, we hardly knew you!"
Author City: DALLAS, TX USA
Susan Briante was born in Newark, N.J., after the riots. She is the author of UTOPIA MINUS and PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION as well as an essayist on industrial ruins, abandoned buildings and cultural memory. She lives in East Dallas with the poet Farid Matuk.
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