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Miracle Mile: Poems and Stories by MC Eades
Coral Springs FL: Llumina Press, 2002
"...A wild, richly-detailed road trip...." -Anodyne
This collection of poems and stories is a journey among the dispossessed and rootless of end-of-century America - from the trailer parks and motels of the rural Southwest and Deep South to the cellblocks of San Quentin; from the skid rows of San Francisco and L.A. to the soft netherworld of American expat enclaves and "tourist ghettoes" in China and Southeast Asia, where self-exiled Americans sit among the ghostly remnants of war and refugees sit in fetid camps waiting to become Americans. As told from the point-of-view of a solitary American soul, it is at one time a dream of America, and a lament for America's failure to live up to that dream.
EXCERPTS FROM MIRACLE MILE:
"HK" "Untitled 1: Saigon" "Untitled 2: Saigon" "Untitled 3: Saigon"
"We (dreamscape of Childhood 1970s" "Driving" "Into Memphis"
"Leatherface Kate" "Khao San Road, Bangkok" "Departure"
"Foreign Devils" "Necropolis" "Tupelo Saturday Night" "Ashes"
"Esperanza, Desert Star" "Beale St., Memphis" "Railroad Crossing"
"Apache" "Three Fragments" "Patio Furniture" "Old Scatterbrain"
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