Poet Daniel Borzutzky follows his 2016 National Book Award winner The Performance of Becoming Human with Lake Michigan, a collection that takes a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in Chicago. Lake Michigan has just been released by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Lake Michigan is a series of 19 lyric poems that imagine a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago: 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 Performance of Becoming Human. But while the influences in this book are international—Césaire, Vallejo, Neruda—the focus is local, as the book takes a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in Chicago.
2018/05/21 - 2018/05/21
Carnegie Lecture Hall
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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