I Know Your Kind: Poems

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Lim n, 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 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.

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

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/26/2017
Library Journal 07/01/2017