Green Mountain Opium Eaters : A History of Early A Alexandra Benedict She has spent the last

She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English hometown

and a magnetic closure

Intimate and illuminating

is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors

these poems--and the dogs that inspired them--hold up a mirror to our better selves

Green Mountain Opium Eaters : A History of Early A Alexandra Benedict She has spent the lastThe green mountains, lush valleys and riotous fall colors of idyllic nineteenth century Vermont masked a sinister underbelly. By 1900, the state was in the throes of a widespread opium epidemic that saw more than 3. 3 million doses of the drug being distributed to inhabitants each and every month. Decades of infighting within the medical profession, complicit doctors and druggists, unrestricted access to opium and bogus patent medicines all