Download or read book Letters To My City (2nd Edition) written by Mike Sonksen and published by Writ Large Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition with a new essay on the late Mike Davis, legendary author of City of Quartz, a new essay on local history of time and space, and a teaching guide to help educators incorporate the book into their curriculum. The poems and essays in Letters to My City combine two decades of field experience, research, personal observations, and stories told to the author, Mike Sonksen, a third-generation Los Angeles native, by his grandfather and other family members, to interrogate all sides of Los Angeles, its streets, its people, its neighborhoods, as a means to examine the postmodern metropolis.