The Murmuring Grief of the Americas Lucebert idiosyncratic

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these meditations are incantations to our connections to the human family—whether in Asia

shapes of optimism and its opposite

and a memoir through poems of her Paris-based life between 2000 and 2017

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The Murmuring Grief of the Americas Lucebert idiosyncraticDaniel Borzutzky In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, 2016 National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky holds to account the private interests driving Western humanitarian decisions, laying bare the immense toll of exploitative labor practices and the self serving nature of authoritative bodies. These powerful, musical poems explore our hemispheric grief under the yokes of labyrinthine immigration policies, militarized policing, and mass capitalism.