Like Songs About Airports

by Leijia Hanrahan

Introduction by Madeline Lane-McKinley

Afterword by Beck Levy
Release date: March 31, 2026

ISBN: 979-8-9997930-1-0

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.

Madeline Lane-McKinley is a feminist writer, parent, and teacher based in Portland, Oregon, whose books include Solidarity with Children (Haymarket Press, 2025), Fag/Hag (Rosa Press, 2024), and Comedy Against Work (Common Notions, 2022). Madeline is also an editor for Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry.