news | Wednesday September 23, 2020
We are so pleased to welcome Taryn Hubbard’s Desire Path!
Desire Path, Hubbard’s debut poetry collection, grows from the impulse to explore home in the suburb – in the intersections, overlaps, and gaps between urban and rural. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling space; urban renewal is foreshadowed all over contemporary suburbs, where vacant, single-family lots herald anticipation of redevelopment into something more, something better, something healthier. But before that happens, what do we make of the space as it sits, just as it is? What monuments anchor the suburb now?