I Know Your Kind: Poems (National Poetry Series)
by William Brewer
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"I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems, William Brewer demonstrates an immersive, devastating empathy for both the lost and the bereaved, the enabled and the enabler, the addict who knocks late at night and the brother who closes the door. Underneath and among this multiplicity of voices runs the show more Appalachian landscape?a location, like the experience of drug addiction itself, of stark contrasts: beauty and ruin, nature and industry, love and despair. Uncanny, heartbreaking, and often surreal, I Know Your Kind is an unforgettable elegy for the people and places that have been lost to opioids"--Amazon.com. show lessTags
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In this award-winning collection, poet William Brewer depicts the devastating effects the opioid crisis has had on the people of Oceana (nicknamed Oxyana), West Virginia. The voices in these poems tell sad stories of drug use, overdose, relapse and enabling. Family relationships are shattered, and a sense of futility and entrapment pervades these vignettes. Imagery from the natural world, especially that of insects, fish and birds, abounds.
This collection is well worth reading.
This collection is well worth reading.
Hauntingly beautiful.
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2018 Notable Books for Adults
26 works; 4 members
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