Winner of the 2021 Michael Waters Poetry PrizeGrappling with both motherhood and the death of a mother, Blueprint and Ruin explores the juxtaposition of prosperity and loss. Filled with cultural specters manifested in structural ruin—houses built on snake dens, malls with foundations in old landfills, a picture-perfect town designed to be eradicated in nuclear testing—the poems mine what’s buried beneath the façade of the American West.
Winner of the 2021 Michael Waters Poetry PrizeGrappling with both motherhood and the death of a mother, Blueprint and Ruin explores the juxtaposition of prosperity and loss. Filled with cultural specters manifested in structural ruin—houses built on snake dens, malls with foundations in old landfills, a picture-perfect town designed to be eradicated in nuclear testing—the poems mine what’s buried beneath the façade of the American West.
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