American Anthem by Kelly Michels Margaret Atwood neighbourly

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original and inspirational poet

what it might be or even what it might have been

Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath’s own line-drawings

followed by an essay by the store’s Records Manager

American Anthem by Kelly Michels Margaret Atwood neighbourlyAfter spending a week sleeping on the floor of a crack house she comes home dragging a heap of bones. So begins Kelly Michels sometimes shocking debut as the author remembers observing her mother. Blending lyric and narrative modes the dominant strands of American Anthem focus on the tragedies, both personal and national, of the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects of addiction and of gun violence in America where the author grew up. Drawing on