Ideal Cities

<p>These poems are so generous so bright and sharp so funny and winning they feel immense. <br />--Paul Guest<p></p></p> <p> </p></p><p>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.<br />-- Nikki Giovanni <p></p></p> <p> </p></p><p>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 <em>Ideal Cities </em>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--<em>Ideal Cities </em>gloriously perpetuates NPS's long-standing tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser-known poets.<p></p></p>