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In Nine Parts Water, One Part Bleach Switzer captures Pittsburgh's erased lives, loves, and landscapes with the ingenuity and integrity of poet- a poet who is also a street scholar, a digital archivist, a lyrical photojournalist, and psychic detective. Switzer exposes the ways social injustice metastasizes into environmental injustice. The names and images recovered here make the forgotten present. Every act of recovery in this compact, terrific collection is a call to action. -Terrance Hayes