{"product_id":"lake-michigan-9780822965220","title":"Lake Michigan","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Performance of Becoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, winner of the National Book Award for poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLake Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eLake Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e's poems continue exploring the themes from Borzutzky's \u003ci\u003ePerformance of Becoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Borzutzky\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Performance of Becoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include \u003ci\u003eIn the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy, Memories of My Overdevelopment, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Book of Interfering Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e. His translation of Galo Ghigliotto's \u003ci\u003eValdivia\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2017 National Translation Award. Other translations include Raúl Zurita's \u003ci\u003eThe Country of Planks \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSong for His Disappeared Love\u003c\/i\u003e; and Jaime Luis Huenun's \u003ci\u003ePort Trakl\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328964071698,"sku":"9780822965220","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10b42205-8363-4a1a-865d-0099c6b234ae.jpg?v=1727755875","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lake-michigan-9780822965220","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}