erika meitner

Anhinga Press, 2011

"These cool, hot poems about women and girls in danger and on the prowl, coming of age and

being of age, are full of startling detail and vivid setting. Meitner's range, wit, compassion and her

alertness to the moments where domestic and collective experience intersect, make these poems

memorable. This book is a seriously good read."

- Daisy Fried

Harper Perennial, 2010

winner of the 2009 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Paul Guest

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"Ideal Cities by Erika Meitner is velocity and landscape, language and heart, the modern blur in which

we live. These poems are so generous, so bright and sharp, so funny and winning, they feel immense:

from the first lines, I was captivated. They were an unassailable announcement that the reader

would never be bored or unmoved, that they were places one would never want to leave."

- Paul Guest

Anhinga Press, 2003

winner of the 2002 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, selected by Stephen Corey,

& finalist for the 2004 Paterson Poetry Prize

"In Erika Meitner's Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, we enter worlds marvelously realized... in the care

of a poet who cares: feisty, funny, and ever alert to the telling details of a life lived in the rush and anguish

of the post-modern world. These are poems like the tattoos she hymns and ponders—they mark our being

with their delicate, indelible patterns, their swoops and utterances and wild surmises."

- Greg Orr

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