Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. "Child of the so-called 'Rust Belt' (moniker denoting a kind of pastoral abandonment of Capital's Capacity, instead of a concertedly choreographed re-placement of its machinery and its train of human effects--emotional / intellectual / artistic) Kristin Palm has come 'back home' with THE STRAITS. But this 'return' is a journey outwards and forwards. It is for all of us interested in demystifying the effective discourses of place around a global-urban nexus. THE STRAITS is a poetic investigatory tour de force that stands alongside Mark Nowak's SHUT UP / SHUT DOWN as to how 'experimental narrative works can enter this scene as cultural forces or vectors that provide other narrative structures for imagining places and histories...towards a cultural imaging of "Another World"'(Jeff Derksen)"--Rodrigo Toscano.
