Following in the path of his acclaimed collections The Book of Interfering Bodies and In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy, Daniel Borzutzky returns to confront the various ways nation-states and their bureaucracies absorb and destroy communities and economies. InThe Performance of Becoming Human, the bay of Valparaiso merges into the western shore of Lake Michigan, where Borzutzky continues his poetic investigation into the political and economic violence shared by Chicago and Chile, two places integral to his personal formation.
