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POETRY
108 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (CA $27.00) (US $20.00)
Publication Date: March 2017
ISBN 9781931824699
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Mar 2017)
Before its financial collapse thrust Detroit into the limelight, there were kids in the city making up dance routines, listening to the radio, and navigating the rugged terrain of racism, poverty, and sexism. Detroit Detroit is Anna Vitale’s timely debut about the city that raised her, a city that is impossible to sum up and hard not to love.
Anna Vitale is a writer and performer writing through psychoanalysis, music, and improvisation. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, Gauss PDF, Jacket2, and P-Queue. Her chapbooks include Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems and Unknown Pleasures. She earned an MFA from Bard and is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in the Hudson Valley.