Refuge

Adrie Kusserow is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, VT. Her most recent international field work trips support girls education (South Sudan -- www.Africaeli.org) and Youth Media Literacy and Gross National Happiness in Bhutan. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and a M.T.S. in Comparative Religion from Harvard Divinity School. Her debut collection Hunting Down the Monk was published by BOA in 2002, with a Foreword by Karen Swenson. She lives with her family in Underhill Center, Vermont where she was born and raised.

"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