<p>Poetry. "Ryan Eckes' VALU-PLUS continues his incisive, wry, sincere, &amp; gorgeous examination of the city- landscape. In Eckes' work, the city—Philadelphia, specifically—cannot be contained, but is well lived in &amp; observed &amp; explored. There is 'a box to be gutted / between dollar tree and footlocker' &amp; 'a worry of rowhomes the body / aches out of.' Place in Eckes' poems can shift its shape between the gutted box &amp; the infinitely expansive—'a box / spraypainted / on the wall / in red / for stickball.' A box of air—it both is &amp; is not there. &amp; the city is something we are in &amp; we carry with us in these wonderful poems. Their stubborn, brilliant sound will return to you as you walk down the street. VALU-PLUS is an archive, a love-letter, a political sharp edge, a report from the adjunct-field, a wondering over 'how we / live this country' &amp; 'how to live in a fucked / world.'"—Pattie McCarthy</p>

Valu-Plus

Literature & Fiction

Eckes, Ryan

Poetry

Furniture Press Books

<p>General Motors is a book of chase scenes for a film without cars, lyric essays that depart from subways never built, and poems for walking off the job. Waking up in the arena of an abandoned public, the spectators are no longer spectators. In Philadelphia, a city built and un-built by capitalism, Ryan Eckes peels apart illusions of individual escape and pieces together a reality in which love means a common refusal of the neoliberal fantasy we’re expected to live in.</p>

General Motors

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Valu-Plus

General Motors