William Brewer is the author of Oxyana, which was awarded the Poetry Society of America's 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Nation, and A Public Space, among others. Brewer is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He was born and raised in West Virginia.
CONTENTS
OXYANA, WEST VIRGINIA
ICARUS IN OXYANA
HALFWAY HOUSE DIARY
CLEAN DAYS IN OXYANA
FOR KC AFTER LOSING HIS BROTHER
OXY 40
DOG DAYS
VOICES AS OF LIONS COMING DOWN
TO THE ADDICT THAT MUGGED ME
EARLY OXYANA: AN ANECDOTE
DAEDALUS IN OXYANA
WE BURN THE BULL
NALOXONE
WITHDRAWAL DREAM OF A ROW OF GEORGIAN TREES
LEAVING THE PAIN CLINIC
SUNDOWNING
ORIGIN OF SILENCE
WITHDRAWAL DREAM AMONGST SPRING ACREAGE
APPALACHIA, YOUR GENESIS
MY SOMNILOQUIST
OVERDOSE PSALM
RESOLUTION
DETOX PSALM
WHAT WE CAN REPLACE
WITHDRAWAL DREAM WITH FEATHER AND KNIFE
IN THE NEW WORLD
WEST VIRGINIA
HALFWAY HOUSE DIARY
TO HIS ENABLER
WITHDRAWAL DREAM ON THE CAPE
AGAINST ENABLING
PLAYING ALONG
ODE TO SUBOXONE
THE GOOD NEWS
LETTER IN RESPONSE TO A LETTER FROM HER SON
RELAPSE PSALM
IN THE ROOM OF THE OVERDOSED, AN EMBER
THE MESSENGER OF OXYANA
EXPLANATION OF MATTER IN OXYANA
TODAY I TOOK YOU TO OUR OXYANA HIGH SCHOOL REUNION
ASCENT
OXYANA, WV: EXIT SONG
THERE IS A GOLD LIGHT
Notes
Acknowledgments
