Ideal Cities

"These poems are so generous, so bright and sharp, so funny and winning, they feel immense."
--Paul Guest

"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."
-- Nikki Giovanni

Exploring themes of pregnancy, motherhood, ancestry, and life in the borderline slums of Washington, DC, the richly felt and adroit poetry of Erika Meitner's Ideal Cities moves, mesmerizes, and delights. The work of an important emerging voice in contemporary American poetry--a winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by Paul Guest--Ideal Cities gloriously perpetuates NPS's long-standing tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser-known poets.

Author: Erika Meitner
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/17/2010
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780061995187

About the Author
Meitner, Erika: -

Erika Meitner's poems have appeared in The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Tin House. She is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech and the author of Inventory at the All-night Drugstore.