Empires of the Everyday
By Anna Lee-Popham
By Anna Lee-Popham
By Anna Lee-Popham
By Anna Lee-Popham
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$18.50
Mar 26, 2024 | ISBN 9780771012365
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Mar 26, 2024 | ISBN 9780771012372
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“The city exacts its towering tolls upon the life that comprises it, the life it ingests, the life living in emergency within it, and Anna Lee-Popham inventories the aftermath with beautiful, exhaustive precision in Empires of the Everyday. Teeming, keening with loss, these poems pull at the threads of our present world and push us to insist on a better one.”
—Laurie D. Graham, author of Fast Commute
“Anna Lee-Popham’s Empires of the Everyday activates the city as contemporaneous theatre and chaotic film strip, showing its underbelly and contrasting currents through freeze frames and montage. Here, you expand and multiply into others, into me, into we, existing in the city’s palimpsestic sediments, forming its grammar. Questions shape pathways as the city channels you into its sinews. Through Lee-Popham’s taut, precise, and muscular language, you address its data and intentions until ‘you become again unknown to yourself’ and ‘make a city possible.’”
—Oana Avasilichioaei, author of Eight Track
“‘The city brews new dangers daily / then sells you remedies for the fear’ writes Anna Lee-Popham in her debut poetry collection, Empires of the Everyday. These brilliant poems function as defamiliarizing machines, compelling the reader to step back and notice the parallels between Lee-Popham’s fictional empire—with its violence, propaganda, and alienation—and our own. Dunya Mikhail said that ‘poetry is not medicine—it’s an X-ray.’ Lee-Popham’s dystopian poems show us the corrosiveness of empire while simultaneously reminding us that our empire is not inevitable. We can change it, and we must, as Lee-Popham implores us from the very beginning, ‘You stand with an x-ray of the real, / its massacres difficult to decipher, your own struggles written / in an impossible language, a necessary one, you parse.’”
—Paige Lewis, author of Space Struck
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