The Murmuring Grief of the Americas Vlerk and moves on with it

and moves on with it

Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry

I felt a form of kinship with Nyberg’s concerns

and media landscapes while trapped in a world structured to extract as much data and capital as possible

Nature offers consolation

The Murmuring Grief of the Americas Vlerk and moves on with itDaniel Borzutzky 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.