Empires of the Everyday
Lee-Popham, Anna
An ambitious and wholly original poetry collection that examines the ways that life is confined and sometimes defined by the city and the ubiquity and invisibility of state violence.The poems in Empires of the Everyday give voice to the many “you” who move through a city—one that resembles many contemporary cities—where plywood shelters are demolished in pandemic winters. The everyday violence is palpable, but the related media reporting is of...