HungerHunger

"There is abundance in Erica Manto Paulson's premiere poetry collection, Hunger. An abundance of image, of story, of knowledge, of the brimming silence which "all things holy" know is "the only way to get through." At its wise heart, Hunger is a reflection on motherhood, in both its most intimate and communal forms. "Who feeds them?" asks a young daughter about children pulled from their mothers' breasts at this country's border. These poems know the reciprocity of nourishment given and received. And in this exchange, "we are opened, / we close / the world expands again.--Pauletta Hansel, Cincinnati Poet Laureate Emeritus"--Page [4] of cover.