I Know Your Kind: Poems

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limón, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering...
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Author: William Brewer
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I Know Your Kind: Poems by Brewer, William

I Know Your Kind: Poems

€22,81

I Know Your Kind: Poems

€22,81
Author: William Brewer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limón, 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. He shows us the high, at once numbing and transcendent: "this warm moment when I forget which part of me / I blamed." He shows us the overdose, when "the poppies on my arms / bruised red petals." And he shows us the mourner, attending his high school reunion: "I guess we were underdressed: / me in my surf shoes / you in an urn." Underneath and among this multiplicity of voices runs the 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.



Author: William Brewer
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781571314956


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/26/2017
Library Journal 07/01/2017

About the Author
William Brewer is the author of Oxyana, which was awarded a Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Nation, and A Public Space, among others. Brewer is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He was born and raised in West Virginia.

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