Here on the Pavement

Abstract

Here on the Pavement is an evocation of place, especially in the context of urban landscapes. The collection moves between three cities: New Orleans, New York, and Washington, DC, with excursions into natural landscapes serving as counterpoints. These poems concern themselves with bus stops, train stations, and neighborhood streets - places of transience and encounter - and with the impermanence of landscape itself. Ultimately, these poems question the possibility of lasting connection to place and seek to understand what it means to be simultaneously surrounded by others and undeniably separate.