The Tenant of Fire is about Queens, NY-its history, public and
personal, real and imagined. Many of the people who populate this
book-Irish Catholics, Italian-Americans-were once considered ethnic
but now fall wholly under the banner of white. And from their
anxieties a man like Donald Trump emerges. Born and raised in
Queens, Trump is both the product and purveyor of a localized
nativist politic. The young white speaker of these poems works to
record his parents' and neighbors', both white and of color, and
his own attempts at navigating a shifting landscape. In poems on
the homecoming of Vietnam vets, or the aftermath of Hurricane
Sandy, or the firebombing of Malcolm X's house, The Tenant of Fire
explores how and why the plurality of a place like Queens, where
now nearly two hundred languages are spoken, is viewed as a threat
to national security.
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