Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston Quill & Quire

Quill & Quire

something beautiful and human about the conflicted pilgrimage that she has captured here that ought to be read and ought to be remembered

there are so many poems in this book that are spot-on validation and celebration of the essence of bissett's work and influence

"If you are toying with the notion of island life

because it would make me quote from nearly every page

Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston Quill & QuireDescription 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