And she's wise enough to know that love searches us out. This is an altogether satisfying book. Colorado Review -The poems, if they are feminist, are so in the best sense of that term, because they do more than prescribe political territory. They engage in real exploration. The hunger in the title is the hunger we can not live without.
Modern voices add their harmonies to the chorale.
Hunger won the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1992, and has been re-issued by Story Line Press . The Puzzles of the Meal Among the forest of forks and spoons the young girl need not fear who remembers that, as with life, the proper meal progresses from outer, to inner, settings. When the fingerbowl arrives, she must not wash her grapes. If doubtful of the ways of oranges, she must choose bananas. When standing to leave the table, a lady does not fold her napkin at her plate but lets it fall, as too careful placement implies an unseemly intention to return.