Recycle Suburbia

Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award. "As the title itself suggests, RECYCLE SUBURBIA is a place of contradictions, where the poet is desperate to make meaning of his world, to find the extraordinary in the mundane. The plain and the surreal, the erotic and the commonplace come together to create a space that is as rich as it is troubling, fantastic as it is familiar. Here, 'Sixty miles from Detroit, everything becomes a car metaphor.' Here, 'We...
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Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award. "As the title itself suggests, RECYCLE SUBURBIA is a place of contradictions, where the poet is desperate to make meaning of his world, to find the extraordinary in the mundane. The plain and the surreal, the erotic and the commonplace come together to create a space that is as rich as it is troubling, fantastic as it is familiar. Here, 'Sixty miles from Detroit, everything becomes a car metaphor.' Here, 'We carry galaxies in our mouths'"--Blas Falconer. Dan Nowak is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska and an editorial assistant for New Sins Press. Dan Nowak is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska and an editorial assistant for New Sins Press. This is his first book of poems.