{"product_id":"copia","title":"Copia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eErika Meitner’s fourth book grapples with the widespread implications of commercialism and over-consumption, particularly in exurban America. Documentary poems originally commissioned by Virginia Quarterly Review \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eexamine the now-bankrupt city of Detroit, once the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethriving heart of the American Dream. Meitner probes the hulking ruins of office buildings, tract housing, superstores, construction sites, and freeways—exposing a vacuous world of decay and abandonment—while holding out hope for re-birth from ashes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecause the image he makes is painted\u003cbr\u003eby flashlight: expired storefront, vacate \u003cbr\u003espace where the elements didn’t take \u003cbr\u003ea toll on bits of smooth façade due to\u003cbr\u003esignage:  labelscar.  Outskirts:  because \u003cbr\u003eour darks erase sirens in the distance,\u003cbr\u003epockmarked asphalt, the unknown\u003cbr\u003ebrightness of an indisposed place.  Who\u003cbr\u003ewraps us with compassion for the world\u003cbr\u003eto come? The wilderness. Box elders\u003cbr\u003eand couch grass crack through cement\u003cbr\u003eblock, return this refuge for cast-off\u003cbr\u003eplastic shoes and discarded Chevys with\u003cbr\u003ethe squared-off trunks of three decades\u003cbr\u003eago to verdant.  To once. Because we\u003cbr\u003erework time and space until both are\u003cbr\u003eabandoned in a concrete grace: blown-\u003cbr\u003eout sky, asperity, rippled bitumen,\u003cbr\u003emonotonal hum. Because everything\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful is not far away. Because\u003cbr\u003eone blue shopping cart knocked over,\u003cbr\u003ejoyridden, hears us sigh goodbye\u003cbr\u003eTwentieth Century and the disposable \u003cbr\u003estore glows quietly from within. In \u003cbr\u003ethe image of plenty we created them.\u003cbr\u003eBecause though this world is changing, \u003cbr\u003ewe will remain the same: abundant and\u003cbr\u003eimpossible to fill.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCopia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eCopia\u003c\/em\u003e are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003et give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with possibility of miracle. Meitner writes of the signs and wonders of our American age ... She writes of the place, the displaced, the misplaced, the replaced, the excavated, the eradicated, the remembered and always, always, the seen ... I loved this book. It was a heart-breaking pleasure to read.”\u003cstrong\u003e —Rachel Zucker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Erika Meitner is the new voice of intelligent and emotional poems. Good for poetry. Good for poetry lovers. Good for the rest of us, too.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Nikki Giovanni\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eMeitner, National Poetry Series Winner for \u003cem\u003eIdeal Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, delivers a collection that bursts with American abundance while simultaneously describing its decline. The collection centers around poems Meitner wrote after a commissioned trip to Detroit for \u003cem\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e; inspired by urban exploration and what John Patrick Leary defined as \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eruin porn\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e in his article \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eDetroitism.\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e But Meitner has a stake in personal exploration that brings intimacy and despair to these poems, which makes them more significant than the simple observations of an outsider ogling or exoticizing poverty and decay.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eWhen is it plenty? When is it enough? In \u003cem\u003eCopia\u003c\/em\u003e, Meitner gathers material from disparate places—big box stores, her grandmother, Yiddish speakers, her life in Blacksburg, VA, travel to Detroit—to consider these questions. The parts that she gathers, the fragments of language, the physical pieces of life, the things left behind, lost, abandoned are greater as a collection than any object individually. Things are more whole together, contained, bound. Meitner assembles plenitude only to ask, is plenty enough? That is the richness, the abundance of \u003cem\u003eCopia.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eIn Erika Meitner’s \u003cem\u003eCopia\u003c\/em\u003e, the abundance of language referred to in the title springs from the American landscape. From the suburbs to the decaying city of Detroit, Meitner uncovers richness of meaning in plain American language. Common objects and signage become mediums for recovering history and personal memory.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCopia\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that, like all good poetry, rewards repeated engagement. Meitner’s poems sometimes masquerade as simple reflections on the everyday, but between their lines hide startling associations and disconcerting realizations. This is what poetry should do: make us stop and take notice of everything happening—not just everywhere in our world and lives, but everywhere just beneath the surface of it all.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePatheos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Erika Meitner is a poet who is unafraid to probe the hulking ruins of office buildings, tract housing, superstores, construction sites, and freeways, and doesn’t shy from the interactions that occur in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Copia—her fourth collection—also includes a section of documentary poems written about Detroit that were originally commissioned for Virginia Quarterly Review. If you’re interested in poetry that is fearless in its approach to the real world with all its beauty and warts equally on display, Meitner is your poet, and Copia is your book.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—BUSTLE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e About the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErika Meitner’s first collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eInventory at the All-night Drugstore\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2002 Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize from Anhinga Press. Her second collection, \u003cem\u003eIdeal Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2009 National Poetry Series and was published by Harper Collins (2010). A graduate of Dartmouth College and the MFA program at the University of Virginia, she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and also earned an MA in Religion as a Morgenstern Fellow in Jewish Studies. Meitner is currently an associate professor of English in the MFA program at Virginia Tech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: September 9, 2014\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e978-1-938160-46-2\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8420360197,"sku":"9781938160462","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12462858141777,"sku":"9781938160463","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/copia_bookstore.jpeg?v=1527683201","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/copia","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}