Copia - Meitner, Erika

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Résumé :
Started as a VQR documentary, Copia examines the now-bankrupt city of Detroit, once the thriving heart of the American Dream.

Biographie:
Erika Meitner’s first collection of poems, Inventory at the All-night Drugstore, won the 2002 Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry from Anhinga Press. Her second collection, Ideal Cities, was a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series and was published by Harper Collins in 2010. Her next book, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, was published by Anhinga Press in 2011. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the MFA program at the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and also earned an M.A. in Religion as a Morgenstern Fellow in Jewish Studies. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2011, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Best African American Essays 2010, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals and anthologies. She is currently an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.

2 Litany of Our Radical Engagement with the Material World
4 Niagara [White towels...]
5 Big Box Encounter
6 Correspondence
8 with/out
9 Staking a Claim
11 Interrobang
13 Niagara [Witness this:]
14 Past-Future/Future-Past
15 Terra Nullius [When we were done...]
16 Apologetics
18 Retail Space Available

II.

20 Maple Ridge [It rains and rains...]
22 untitled [and the moon]
23 Yizker Bukh
25 And the moon
26 Yiddishland
27 Inconsequential Alchemy
28 Snowpocalypse
29 To Whom it May Concern:
31 One Version of December
32 Wal-Mart Supercenter
34 You Return the Torah to the Ark
35 The Architecture of Memory
37 Let the future begin this way:
40 Maple Ridge [It is nearly Halloween...]

III.

42 The Book of Dissolution
43 Post-Industrialization
44 By Other Means
45 Ghostbox
46 In/exhaustible
48 All that Blue Fire
50 Outside the Abandoned Packard Plant
51 And After the Ark
52 The Language of Happiness
54 Inside the Frame
55 Outside the Frame
56 Borderama
58 Terra Nullius [The poem in which...]
60 Cosmogony/Progeny
62 Ars Poetics with Radio Apparatus, Toddler, & Ducks
64 Porto, Portare, Portavi, Portatus