Ideal Cities

dc.contributor.author	Meitner, Erika S.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-22T16:56:25Z	en
dc.date.available	2012-10-22T16:56:25Z	en
dc.date.issued	2012-09	en
dc.description.abstract	Erika Meitner discusses her new book: Ideal Cities. This collection of autobiographical narrative and lyric poems explores the relationship between body and place—specifically the pleasures and dangers of women’s corporeal experiences. Ideal Cities is guided by an epigraph from Song of Songs, and the metaphorical idea of bodies as cities, and cities as bodies. How do women’s bodies become sites of inscription via sex, childbirth, and other highly physical acts? These poems also investigate urban, suburban, and rural borderlands. Who do we leave behind or look past? What do we discard, as purposeful markers or accidental refuse? How can these people, places, and objects be woven into larger ideas about nature, sense of place, home, exile, and both personal and collective memory?	en
dc.description.notes	Video. 39:34.	en
dc.format.mimetype	video/mp4	en
dc.format.mimetype	video/webm	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19048	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech. University Libraries	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Visible Scholarship Initiative	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.holder	Virginia Tech. University Libraries	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Poetry	en
dc.subject	Gender	en
dc.subject	Identity	en
dc.title	Ideal Cities	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
dc.type	Video	en