Part of Belt's City Anthology Series. "The ultimate (literary) tour
guide to the neighborhoods and wild places, history and politics,
culture and cuisine, music and myths of the Twin Cities, a place I only
thought I knew."--Benjamin Percy
In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America's literary
powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The
Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most exciting work being
done in, or about, Minneapolis and the Twin Cities area, with narrative
threads that stretch back not just to Scandinavia, but across the world.
Edited by Frank Bures (The Geography of Madness), the writers included
here have won, or been shortlisted for, the Newbery Award, the Man
Booker Prize, the Pulitzer, the Caldecott Award, the National Book
Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and many others. The wide-ranging
stories included here include:
- A tour through Prince's Minneapolis
- The story of the Metrodome's demolition
- A story of a Somali immigrant's journey to Eden Prairie
- Eating Halva on Lake Street.
Contributors include James Wright, Kelly Barnhill, Marlon James, Kao
Kalia Yang, Michael Perry, Bao Phi, Danez Smith, Shannon Gibney and many
more, alongside new and first-time writers.
A wonderful, literary portrait of the City of Lakes and the myriad ways
it's changed in recent years.