{"product_id":"9781938160479","title":"Copia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003ci\u003eCopia\u003c\/i\u003e are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won't give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with the possibility of miracle.\"—Rachel Zucker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErika Meitner's fourth book takes cues from the Land Artists of the 1960s who created work based on landscapes of urban peripheries and structures in various states of disintegration. The collection also includes a section of documentary poems about Detroit that were commissioned for \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeitner also probes the hulking ruins of office buildings, tract housing, superstores, construction sites, and freeways, and doesn't shy from the interactions that occur in Walmart and supermarket parking lots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is nearly Halloween, which means\u003cbr\u003ewrong sizes on Wal-Mart racks, variety bags of\u003cbr\u003epumpkins extinguishing themselves on the stoop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003echildren from the trailer park trawling our identical lawns soon\u003cbr\u003eso we can give away nickels, light, sandpaper, raisins, cement.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157637120240,"sku":"9781938160479","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938160479_p0.jpg?v=1763663371","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938160479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}