Patchwork

by Cody Walker

300 years ago, Victor Frankenstein created life.
100 years ago, Herbert West reanimated life.
50 years ago, corporations started to mass produce life.
And now, they can vote.

174 pages, Paperback

Published January 26, 2023

About the author

Cody Walker lives in Ann Arbor and teaches English at the University of Michigan. He's the author of two poetry collections: The Self-Styled No-Child and Shuffle and Breakdown, both from The Waywiser Press. His awards include the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah and residency fellowships from the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the Amy Clampitt Fund. A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools program, he was elected Seattle Poet Populist in 2007. His work appears in The Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Parnassus, Slate, The Yale Review, and Poetry Northwest. He blogs for The Kenyon Review.