13 Questions for the Next Economy: New & Selected Works

Susan Briante, award-winning poet and chronicler of globalization, The Great Recession, and the militarization of daily life, returns with 13 Questions for the Next Economy. This visionary collection, from the author of the Poetry Foundation's Pegasus prize-winning Defacing the Monument, weaves together selections from her four previous books with arresting new poems and visuals. Across these pages, NAFTA, industrial ruins, falling market indices, and the archives of state violence form interdependent constellations. A child is born, parents die, and an economic system continues to extract its lethal toll. "Where does the riot begin?" Briante asks. Here, in poetry that charts how too-late capitalism desecrates contemporary lives. Adopting the aesthetics and the urgency of the zine, Briante's work charts interconnected constellations of economic and political systems that govern our lives. These systems (like language) leave their mark on everything. And yet, poems resist. In a perfect world, you would pick up this book from a blanket laid out on a sidewalk alongside knock-off Doc Martens, old magazines, cellophaned wrapped candy, and small bundles of wildflowers. You might not pay for it. You'd read it, make a copy, pass it on.

Author: Susan Briante
Publisher: Noemi Press
Published: 10/01/2025
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781955992664

About the Author
Briante, Susan: - Susan Briante is the author of Defacing the Monument, essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state, winner of the Poetry Foundation's Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. In addition, she has written three books of poetry, most recently The Market Wonders. Her work can be found in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Brooklyn Rail (among many other venues). She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program, which brings students to the US-Mexico border to collaborate with community-based environmental and social justice groups and a member of the Detained Project, a public facing archive that gathers the oral histories of formerly detained migrants and asylum seekers.