Songs That Remind Us of Factories

The poems in Songs that Remind Us of Factories explore how weremain connected: to the world outside, to our ideas of home, toeach other, and to ourselves. In their searching, these magpie poemsstrike a balance between wound language and quiet meditation,the arched-brow wisecrack and the emotionally frank gesture. Theresult is an honest and playful sequence of poems that plumb ourmyriad reactions when small wildernesses occasionally come inside.The book's final section asks whether we may no...