Lake Michigan
By: Daniel Borzutzky
Series: Pitt poetry series; Pitt poetry series
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9780822965220
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Race relations; Prisoners; Poetry; Capitalism
Work titles: Poems
Description: Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of 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 explore the themes of estrangement, state violence and capitalist exploitation, and take a hard look at neoliberal urbanism in the historic city of Chicago.
Notes: Poems arranged like a play in two acts, each with nine scenes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-79).