Lake Michigan

From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human , winner of the National Book Award for poetry Lake Michigan , a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking about the ways in which economic policy, racism, and militarized policing combine to shape the city, Lake Michigan 's poems continue exploring the themes from Borzutzky's Performance of Becoming Human , winner