{"product_id":"9781938160462","title":"Copia","description":"\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 \u003ci\u003eBecause it is an uninhabited place, because it makes me hollow, I pried open the pages of\u003cbr\u003eDetroit: the houses blanked out, factories absorbed back into ghetto palms and scrub-\u003cbr\u003e• ak, piles of tires, heaps of cement block.\u003cbr\u003eVines knock and enter through shattered drop-ceilings, glassless windows. Ragwort cracks the street's asphalt to unsolvable puzzles.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048496775408,"sku":"9781938160462","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938160462_p0.jpg?v=1763662814","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938160462","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}