City Walks

<p>Rachel King wrote the poems in <em>City Walks</em> upon returning to her hometown of Portland Oregon after over a dozen years of living away. Their precise details wired to lively music and memorable images (Mark Wagenaar) investigate a known place witness gentrification acknowledge death and insist on the possibility of beauty and joy despite it all: I have rarely been happier than walking miles / around my city learning its history / while watching people play out their needs (City Walks). Full of devotion and intensity these poems call us to love a little more humbly a little less selfishly (Charity Gingerich).</p>