<p>Benjamin Mueller&#39;s debut poetry collection <em>To Where Are We Bound</em> examines coming-of-age in a dying steel town the desire for escape and the power of place to shape our lives. The collection uses images to tell the story life in a small rural Pennsylvania town. From Friday night football to the shuttered steel factory to the closed Main Street store fronts Mueller&#39;s poems echo the voices of a past that is very much still present.</p>