Talking Back to the Exterminator

Poems, like politics, can be local and global, personal and cultural. In Daniel Bourne' s Talking Back to the Exterminator, we see this interplay at work in these ruminations on place— our connections and disconnections to it— from Bourne' s upbringing in southern Illinois to his later homes in Ohio, Poland, or the American Southwest. This connection certainly involves a sense of celebration, but also of anxiety and tension in realizing the fragility and impermanence of both self and surrou...