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Book

Sprawl : poems

Call Number

  • 811 C6972 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2023]

Physical Description

vi, 88 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Andrew Collard's lyrical poems about Detroit show how the social and geographical past influences the present. Written from the perspective of a single parent raising a child amid increasing social isolation, economic insecurity, public catastrophes, and anxiety, Sprawl reminds us of the comforting endurance of communal experience"--

Contents

  • Perpetual Motion
  • Quizzo Night at The Red Ox
  • Cicada Song
  • Pax Americana
  • Autotopia
  • Future Ruins
  • Wartime, Rally's Drive-in
  • Carried
  • Clippings: Sterling Assembly Plant
  • Crawling Backwards
  • The Nest
  • Unpunctuated Days
  • Elegy for the Dymaxion Car
  • Autotopia
  • They Say King's Forest Boulevard Is Healing
  • Sub-pastoral
  • After News of a Border Shutdown, I Venture Out for Fries
  • Clippings: Sterling Assembly Plant
  • Gas & Food
  • Key Motor Mall
  • On the Demolition of Produce Kingdom
  • Telway Lament
  • Autotopia
  • Badlands Flashback
  • Night Music
  • Commute
  • Clippings: Sterling Assembly Plant
  • Church can be a word for anywhere
  • Landscape with Ryegrass and Hunger
  • Idyll
  • City of Windows
  • Night Cycle
  • Autotopia
  • To My Son Henry, Asleep in the Next Room
  • Dear leasing office, dear oil slick.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.