Product Description: "Mylar bears the grace and stringent inquisitiveness of Elizabeth Bishop’s North & South and Marianne Moore’s Observations. Wertheimer gives us a world as delicately confounded as the persons who live in it. The lucidity with which Mylar documents vicissitudes of weathering (“The world leaked and was confused/And large knowing birds/Came to rescue its unnerving nestedness”) is matched by a lyric voice whose meticulous fortitude assuages just enough...read more

Product Description: Imagined Empires demonstrates that early American culture took great interest in South American civilizations, especially the Incas and Aztecs, and in so doing made a statement about the role of the United States as an empire in the emerging political order of New World colonies and states...read more