City Scattered: CABARET FOR FOUR VOICES

WINNER OF THE SNOWBOUND CHAPBOOK AWARD
“In a tone reminiscent of the era’s radio plays, City Scattered offers a range of spliced voices that construct a multi-perspectival musing on ‘the new woman’ as she emerged in the labor and consumer culture of Germany between the wars… We participate in the city itself as it becomes a kaleidoscope of rapidly shifting images, making quick, expert cuts into each other, juxtaposing an arousing, energized youth, dancing, drinking, and punching time-clocks, with black-and-white, grainy newsreel imagery of unemployment lines and laundry drying in coal-polluted air. Tyler Mills keeps her language sharp and flat, vivid and yet frank…”
―from the Snowbound Judge’s Citation by Cole Swensen