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Hunger is a fierce and intimate portrait of survival, inheritance, and the ache of becoming. In her debut collection, Danielle Jones moves across generations and continents-from wartime Italy to the Deep South-with poems that thread together the visceral details of history, family, and the body. Whether foraging in ""abandoned gardens"" or slicing ""a potato so thin you can see the sun / of her skin shining through,"" these poems explore the everyday rituals of care and cruelty, the silences we carry, and the secrets buried in kitchens, attics, and the body itself.-Diannely Antigua, author of Good Monster

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In her debut collection, Hunger, Danielle Jones challenges us, ""I don't think you'll ever / be hungry enough to understand."" From the opening poem, with its ""pair of night eyes, watching,"" Jones takes the reader on a journey of starvation, from Italy, with its ""prickly greens, wild artichokes, frost-touched / strawberries,"" to Alabama, with catfish and peaches. Yet Jones renders this landscape-her ""mother's country, somewhere, deep inside mine""-with poetic mastery, with observations ""lovely as a luna moth, starving / for silk she can't taste."" Hunger is a book I'll return to again, for its beauty, its truth, its ""first signs of spring."" -Jennifer Martelli, author of The Queen of Queens, winner of the IASA Book AwardA photo album, slices of real life that would be lost without these surprising turns: getting your period in solitary confinement, what it means to find a secret room in the attic, two girls kissing each other in the dark and never talking about it. There are so many simple pleasures here, stark truths. These poems are fresh bread and olive oil and salt, ""rough love,"" warm, fresh berry jam, ""a handful of cherries, a set/of keys, magnolia blooms."" They feed us. They take us places we need to go.-Jill McDonough, author of American Treasure

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Danielle Jones is a poet, artist, and educator. She holds an MFA from UMass Boston. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Consequence Magazine, Memorious, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, a St. Botolph's Club Emerging Artist Award, a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, and a Brother Thomas Foundation Fellowship. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire, where she directs the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival and manages YAS Press.

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