Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston mythical creatures and extreme violence

mythical creatures and extreme violence illuminate small scenes of domestic life and the banal tragedies of modern love and modern death

"New Brunswick poet Matthew Holmes

like an iceberg or crater on the moon

is already brilliantly accomplished

Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston mythical creatures and extreme violenceDescription Our Familiar Hunger is a book about the strength, will, struggle and fortitude of generations of women and how those relationships and knowledges interact, inform, transform and burden. These poems are memories of reclaimed history and attempts at starting over in a new place. They are the fractured reality of trickle down inheritance, studies of the epigenetic grief we carry and the myriad ways that interferes or interprets our best