American Anthem by Kelly Michels ocean vuong Maria Borio’s first English-language collection

Maria Borio’s first English-language collection confronts the interpersonal crises of contemporary lives caught between two worlds—one ancient and abiding

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American Anthem by Kelly Michels ocean vuong Maria Borio’s first English-language collectionAfter spending a week sleeping on the floor of a crack house she comes home dragging a heap of bones. So begins Kelly Michels sometimes shocking debut as the author remembers observing her mother. Blending lyric and narrative modes the dominant strands of American Anthem focus on the tragedies, both personal and national, of the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects of addiction and of gun violence in America where the author grew up. Drawing on