William Brewer
Author
Series
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
75 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...