The Murmuring Grief of the Americas -- Daniel Borzutzky, Paperback

"All I ever wanted is to keep the police away from the outside of my body and keep the police away from the inside of my body."

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.

Author: Daniel Borzutzky
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 08/06/2024
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781566897051

About the Author
Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator. His 2016 collection, The Performance of Becoming Human, received the National Book Award. Lake Michigan (2018) was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His most recent translation is Paula Ilabaca Nuñez's The Loose Pearl (2022), winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He teaches English and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.