The Next Hunger: Poems($16.00Value)

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The title of this lovely and masterful collection, The Next Hunger, refers to the spiritual hunger that grows out of a world of craving. The lyric forms of these poems shift and change as the poet traces the links between the beautiful and tragic, the grace-filled and desolate, in all our daily devotionsthe apprehension of Mystery in every worldly thing leading, finally, to self-forgetfulness. “The Next Hunger is the perfect title for this exceptional first book, for two reasons: 1) She’s not writing about lunch, and 2) It is, all at the same time, a book of human yearning, a book of gratitude, and a book of joy; these poems are made things, and they sing songs I’ve never heard before, and they’re splendidly sung.” (Thomas Lux) Kimberly Cloutier-Green is a poet and artist from Kittery Point, Maine. She formerly taught poetry and non-fiction in the UNH Department of English.