Buffalo free rapid transit /
"Joe Hall's intense and unsparing Buffalo Free Rapid Transit combines a darkly observant stroll through a crisis-plagued Rust Belt city with a love letter to the people trying to get by within it. These poems move through the years 2020-2023, when one American city became a recurring site...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Black Ocean,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Joe Hall's intense and unsparing Buffalo Free Rapid Transit combines a darkly observant stroll through a crisis-plagued Rust Belt city with a love letter to the people trying to get by within it. These poems move through the years 2020-2023, when one American city became a recurring site of national horror: a police assault caught on camera, a white supremacist massacre, a blizzard that killed forty-seven people while emergency services failed. Hall grapples with decades of abandonment and disinvestment--and with what it means to keep living, coping, working, and dreaming in a place the rest of the country only notices during disaster. The long, searching lines come from the strange place where cold reality, dread, and visions of a better future crack open into each other." -- |
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| Physical Description: | 147 pages ; 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781965154151 1965154158 |