William Brewer D.

I Know Your Kind


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      2016 COMPETITION WINNERS

       I Know Your Kind

      by William Brewer of Brooklyn, NY

      Chosen by Ada Limón for Milkweed Editions

       For Want of Water

      by Sasha Pimentel of El Paso, TX

      Chosen by Gregory Pardlo for Beacon Press

       Civil Twilight

      by Jeffrey Schultz of Los Angeles, CA

      Chosen by David St. John for Ecco

       MADNESS

      by Sam Sax of Austin, TX

      Chosen by Terrance Hayes for Penguin Books

       Thaw

      by Chelsea Dingman of Tampa, FL

      Chosen by Allison Joseph for University of Georgia Press

      Due to the nature of e-book formatting, line breaks in this edition may differ from the print edition.

      © 2017, Text by William Brewer

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      Published 2017 by Milkweed Editions

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      Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

      Author photo by Anna Haggerty

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Brewer, William, 1989- author.

      Title: I know your kind: poems / William Brewer.

      Description: First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016059859 | ISBN 9781571314956 (pbk.: alk. paper)

      Classification: LCC PS3602.R4816 A6 2017 | DDC 811/.6--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016059859

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      For my parents

       CONTENTS

        Cover

        Title Page

        Copyright

        Dedication

      1  Oxyana, West Virginia

      2  Icarus in Oxyana

      3  Halfway House Diary

      4  Clean Days in Oxyana

      5  For KC after Losing His Brother

      6  Oxy 40

      7  Dog Days

      8  Voices as of Lions Coming Down

      9  To the Addict Who Mugged Me

      10  Early Oxyana: An Anecdote

      11  Daedalus in Oxyana

      12  We Burn the Bull

      13  Naloxone

      14  Leaving the Pain Clinic

      15  Sundowning

      16  Origin of Silence

      17  Withdrawal Dream amongst Spring Acreage

      18  Appalachia,