Ideal Cities: Poems (National Poetry Series)

“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.