Looping Detroit: A People Mover Travelogue
Michigan Publishing Services
ISBN13:
9781607853794
$21.78
Equal parts urban culture and poetic travelogue, Looping Detroit is a collection of observations each taking place in and around one station stop of Detroit's People Mover. Built in 1987, the People Mover was and is largely regarded as a public transit boondoggle--costly, circumscribed, and, in light of these, a particularly egregious investment within a city lacking sufficient public transportation. At a time when Detroit's downtown development is booming, with tremendous investment in a downtown that was ignored for decades, the very real possibility exists that this new interest will parallel the same investment patterns that brought the over invested People Mover to a fragment of the city. Looping Detroit invites artists and writers to ride the small loop as an explorer, mining the environs around each station as a poetic ramble, a psycho geographic wander, a cultural inquiry that simultaneously ponders the poetics of circulating above the city streets while probing the greater narrative of Detroit's public transit conundrum. Contributors include award-winning Detroit novelists Lolita Hernandez and Michael Zardoorian, poets Gloria House and Walter Lacy, music producer Cornelius Harris, Chace MicWrite Morris, frontman of the Detroit hip-hop trio Coldmen Young, and radio producer Zak Rosen.
- | Author: Nick Tobier
- | Publisher: Michigan Publishing Services
- | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 116 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Art
- | ISBN-10: 1607853795
- | ISBN-13: 9781607853794
- Author:
- Nick Tobier
- Publisher:
- Michigan Publishing Services
- Publication Date:
- Sep 08, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 116 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Art
- ISBN-10:
- 1607853795
- ISBN-13:
- 9781607853794