Ideal Cities: Poems (National Poetry Series)
&#8220;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.&#8221; (Nikki Giovanni)The poems in Erika Meitner&#8217;sIdeal Citiesare road maps, blueprints, dollhouses, dioramas.....Meitner&#8217;s poetry isn&#8217;t afraid of history and personal histories. Her voice is smart, sassy, and savvy. Her ideal poems are built with mortar and quirkily astounding metaphors (Denise Duhamel)