Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in
Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience to
critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning:
commodification, environmental negligence, corporate exploitation, toxic
masculinity. At once surreal and satirical, vulnerable and nostalgic,
Mishler channels the voices of disillusioned middle management alongside
the freewheeling imaginative vision of children to disrupt the fixity of
our received ideas.