Poem: ‘Here in a State of Tectonic Tension’
Lawrence Joseph, 22 November 2012
Its geography similar to Istanbul’s – read for Lake Huron, the Black Sea, for the St Clair River, the Bosporus, for Lake St Clair, the Sea of Marmara, for the Detroit River, the Dardanelles, and for Lake Erie, the Mediterranean – a natural place for Ford and Olds to open factories, strategically tangential to the Pittsburgh steel mills, Akron rubber plants, the Mesabi iron...