Book Review: 'The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems,' Adrie Kusserow
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Seven Days— We live in an epoch of refugees. According to the UN Refugee Agency, as of October 2023 more than 110 million people in our world had been "forcibly displaced" from their homes. This global emergency lends currency and urgency to The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems, a new book by Adrie Kusserow, cultural anthropologist, self-described "ethnographic poet," and chair of the Saint Michael's College sociology and anthropology department. Kusserow has been a relief worker and teacher...
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