Ideal Cities by Erika Meitner, whom I interviewed in 2009, was published in 2010 by Harper Perennial as part of the National Poetry Series selected by Paul Guest. The collection is broken down into two sections: Rental Towns and Ideal Cities. Rental towns appears to be at first glance about the transient nature of apartment or rental living, but on a deeper level its about the transient nature of our lives and how quickly we all want to grow up and become adults. There zipping through memories and moments reminds us that our childhood moves too quickly and so innocence is gone before we realize it. “The windows on the soon-to-be luxury/condos across the way say things/to the darkness I can’t hear. Sometimes/they’re blocked by the train masticating/its way across town. Now and then//” (from Vinyl-Sided Epiphany, page 5-6)

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