Refuge

“Refuge is a book of tears of both despair and joy … This book reminds us how blessed sanctuary is.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

“Kusserow presents her awareness and self-consciousness to the reader. She often writes the familiar as alien … This collection grips the reader with jaggedness, inequality, horror, and the tenderness of nursing one’s children. A Vermont mother watches her son and daughter play in the stream having seen a Sudanese woman lying in the road. Ethnographic poetry has capacity to hold the enormity of war and a fight between siblings. Here, Refuge exists both for war torn nations and the narrator and her family.”
-Green Mountain Review