The Land of the Dead Is Open for Business
Strautmann, Jacob
Poems of urgent beauty that give voice to a region of people who have been silenced or ignored. The Land of the Dead is Open for Business is an extended elegy for Jacob Strautmann's home state of West Virginia and its generations of inhabitants sold out by the false promise of the American Dream. Throughout the book, voices rise up from the page to describe a landscape eroded and plundered by runaway capitalism-its mountain tops leveled by fra...