Finalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for poetry Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is 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 Borzutzky's Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. But while the influences in this book (C?saire, Vallejo, Neruda) are international, the focus here is local as the book takes a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic city of Chicago.

Author: Daniel Borzutzky
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 02/09/2018
Series: Pitt Poetry
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822965220


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2018 pg. 52
Booklist 03/15/2018 pg. 12
Library Journal 07/01/2018 pg. 76

About the Author
Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator, and the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy, Memories of My Overdevelopment, and The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto's Valdivia won the 2017 National Translation Award. Other translations include Raúl Zurita's The Country of Planks and Song for His Disappeared Love; and Jaime Luis Huenun's Port Trakl. He lives in Chicago.