Jerry Estrin
ROME, A MOBILE HOME
by Jerry Estrin
Illustrated by Norma Cole
"Rome, A Mobile Home makes good on its wonderful title: a pleasure and a warning. The sun never sets on the Empire's trailer/theme park. Estrin takes aim at our culture's tendency to reductive appropriation with laconic, fearsome wit. The famous (the known) are equivalent: Caesar and Roger Maris. "I will now be visible forever." We are all implicated. This is where we live."
- Rae Armantrout