Amerika/America

Poetry. "Zuckerman juxtaposes our rich and often willful U.S. American landscape against those other landscapes of th world upon which we impose such a negative influence yet before which we are conditioned to turn away. She does this with keen observation, lyric grace and exceptional poetic power. Perhaps the poems ofAMERIKA/AMERICA signal a return of the spirit of the sixties and seventies, when it was all right to empathize with humans everywhere. I hope so"-Margaret Randall"The guy whose bumper sticker says "USA Love it or Leave it" / weaves in and out of traffic and cuts me off. / My bumper shows the broken gun of a peace worker; / still, I give him the finger, would dearly love to kill him."