BlurbsLee evokes the nuanced character of the capital city, a place "between joy / and bruise" where you can be "born of church and Sunday dinners" but also haunted by people treated as if they were disposable, such as the "Freeway Phantom" girls whose brown bodies disappear like "hollow stalks." Lee memorably captures a sense of place, balanced on the knife-edge between the politician\'s grand domed edifices, and the projects of Anacostia, ringing with bullets for "night\'s soundtrack." These poe.
BlurbsLee evokes the nuanced character of the capital city, a place "between joy / and bruise" where you can be "born of church and Sunday dinners" but also haunted by people treated as if they were disposable, such as the "Freeway Phantom" girls whose brown bodies disappear like "hollow stalks." Lee memorably captures a sense of place, balanced on the knife-edge between the politician\'s grand domed edifices, and the projects of Anacostia, ringing with bullets for "night\'s soundtrack." These poe
