Summary: John Freeman's first poetry collection charts the impact of place on human experience. In Beirut, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Rome, and the foothills of a childhood hometown, Freeman navigates legacies of ruin and construction, illness and memory. Warm, mournful, and distinctly urban, Maps offers a compassionate perspective from the experience of one American embroiled in empire. Deborah Landau’s third collection, The Uses of the Body, was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and included on “Best of 2015″ lists by The New Yorker, Vogue, BuzzFeed, and O, The Oprah Magazine. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The New York Times, and The Best American Poetry; in 2016 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Her fourth book, Soft Targets, will be published in 2019.
