Someone's Utopia

Poetry. SOMEONE'S UTOPIA is about work and the mystery of making. The book's spectral labor is a séance. Readers may hear echoes of Alice Notley and Lorine Niedecker, punctuated by the table-rapping of the invisible hand of capitalism, as they witness the (un)making of the familiar world. Drawing from a wide range of sources--including interviews with contemporary workers and journals from members of a utopian 19th century community--Hall yokes the often unspoken, generational labor of hand...