release date: March 31, 2026
like songs about airports
by Leijia Hanrahan
introduction by Madeline Lane-McKinley
afterword by Beck Levy
Ill Will Editions
ISBN: 979-8-9997930-1-0
ABOUT like songs about airports
There are very few voices in our field capable of seeing the whole picture and what’s at stake: the future, and nothing less. Leijia Hanrahan, through a layer of wit and sometimes withering irony, could see that future.
– Kate Wagner, architecture critic for The Nation and creator of the blog McMansion Hell
With an eye to its undoing, she shows how the logic of capital inheres in the built environment, in structures guarded by policemen who will never be able to neutralize the seething underbelly of rioters and fare evaders waging class war on the architecture of control.
– Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism
Leijia Hanrahan (1987-2022) was a revolutionary, geographer, essayist and poet. This collection of poems and essays, a sequence of places lived and traversed, of avenues and cartographies, traces the human geography of lives enabled, contorted, limited or destroyed by capital. In lucid prose and luminous verse, Hanrahan writes of cities, bodies and movement through urban space and across distant borders. Daring, vulnerable and irreverent, she is an impeccable guide through landscapes beautiful and terrible, both real and imagined.
A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the Poetry Field School's Leijia Hanrahan Scholarship for Communist Women Smokers.
the like songs about airports chapbook is no longer available for purchase. but the book is! follow the link above to learn more and pre-order your copy for March 2026.
like songs about airports
a small book of avenues, topography, and history; both real and imagined. handmade, twenty pages, seventeen original poems and maps.
“disorienting stories, heartbreakingly beautiful…hallucinatory and intimate” - beck levy, senior editor, antigravity magazine
“transiently borgesian” - greg lawson, writer, the brooklyn rail et al.
