Vacationland

$19.95

by Ander Monson

These are pleasure-inducing lamentations with an enticingly experimental edge. They elegize Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the copper mines, tourism, family, amateur radio, winter, and much more. These poems are affected by the claustrophobic, half-year Michigan winters, where the nearest city is a four-hour car ride. Monson’s is a wildly original mind, creating exotic variations on traditional forms.

by Ander Monson

These are pleasure-inducing lamentations with an enticingly experimental edge. They elegize Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the copper mines, tourism, family, amateur radio, winter, and much more. These poems are affected by the claustrophobic, half-year Michigan winters, where the nearest city is a four-hour car ride. Monson’s is a wildly original mind, creating exotic variations on traditional forms.

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About the Author

Ander Monson draws from his life in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, the Deep South, and Saudi Arabia. He has an MFA from the University of Alabama. He edits the magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press, and publishes widely. His novel in stories, Other Electricities, has been newly released by Sarabande Books.

Advanced Praise

Vacationland is reviewed on the Emerging Writers Forum.

The literary journal Boston Review features a review of Vacationland.

Vacationland is a 2005 Summer Reading Recommendation on NPR along with Monson’s Other Electricities. You can hear the full program including the Monson coverage by selecting the “Listen” button.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-16-3