“In SCAR/CITY, Daniela Elza creates a disturbing and very real portrait of urban displacement. Through fractured words and the use of space itself, she allows her readers to physically experience urban life as so many of us know it: the destabilization of community, nature, home, and human dignity in the face of greed-driven, relentless development. This is a work for our times, revealing the heavy human and natural toll exacted by the financialization of housing, documenting not just the physical erasure of neighbourhoods but also the deeper spiritual costs. Elza’s poetry will move you to reflect deeply, to mourn loss, and, through poetic persuasion, to defend what’s left.” Leilani Farha, The Shift