A place that is living: a conversation with Sue Landers and Christy Davids

PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 59 of PennSound podcasts, Christy Davids returned to the Wexler Studio at Kelly Writers House earlier this year to chat with Sue Landers, whose 2016 book Franklinstein represents a documentary-poetic engagement with the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. As she notes in this interview with Davids, Landers's work makes an argument against dehistoricized nostalgia as a documentary-poetics mode and instead toward a historically, politically alert poetic attitude toward our attachments to place. In this PennSound podcast, Landers and Davids draw out the significance of particular passages from Franklinstein and discuss what they have to teach us about the politics of mapping, memory, and place-based history.