"I questioned authority and the question won": "Transnational Muscle Cars" and the Neoliberal Order.

The article examines the extent in which critic and poet Jeff Derksen contends with neoliberalism in the collection "Transnational Muscle Cars." The collection includes a series of long poems and short pieces which reflect Derksen's interest in the materiality of language. It notes that the long poems are generated through the relationship between social and textual structures. The speaker in the poem "Happy Locally, Sad Geopolitically" is also described as emotionally conflicted.