To 2040 by Jorie Graham Henry Wadsworth Longfellow East London-living

East London-living

and in language

and always wonderfully disquieting

Among the artists she encounters are a painter of miniatures

perfect for students of literature and creative writing

To 2040 by Jorie Graham Henry Wadsworth Longfellow East London-livingTo 2040 begins with question masquerading as fact: 'Are we extinct yet. Who owns the map.' These visionary new poems reveal Graham as historian, cartographer, prophet, plotting an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant, 'the American experiment will end in 2030'. Graham exposes a potentially