To 2040 by Jorie Graham Jen Campbell whose fragmented memories of political

whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eight-part poetic sequence

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is more than a book of poems

To 2040 by Jorie Graham Jen Campbell whose fragmented memories of politicalTo 2040 begins with question masquerading as fact: 'Are we extinct yet. Who owns the map.' These visionary new poems reveal Graham as historian, cartographer, prophet, plotting an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant, 'the American experiment will end in 2030'. Graham exposes a potentially