{"product_id":"declarations-of-hunger-9781936767601","title":"Declarations of Hunger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"How can a thing glint even as it's still? Ask Reed Smith. He speaks the dying language of morning light, rivers, burlap shadows, and coyotes' \"early barks [...] slapping flatwater,\" inspects all our dust and rot and manages yet to marvel. Reading Declarations of Hunger felt like slipping along in a secret canoe, deep in a landscape of grief and tenderness, where the marsh hawk stares back and \"truth always makes a curve.\" I think we can trust this voice-its intimacy as much as its restraint. Smith's poems get good and close, enough to hear the rasp of snake scales and to be honest about what a man sees in the mirror. To warn us about fingers in the hourglass. To test every door.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Allison Adair, author of The Clearing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Smith reminds us that until we can divest from our massy entailments, our dis-eased and \"loculated bodies\" persist with their sad animal hunger, drawing sustenance from the nitrate- and blood-soaked earth. America remains mostly fields-even as we marginalize them in our digitally obsessed cultural imaginary-ravaged by weather and industry, where \"Fermented \/ in Disneyworld bacteria, embryos fasciculate \/ in polluted foam.\" These poems combat the trivialization of our food's origins and the fates of our waste, knowing the earth is a record of our devastations, yet our hope for survival.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Joe Fletcher, author of The Hatch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some poetry slows time to a crawl, the intonation of an image or phrase a kind of musculature developing right before your very eyes. You can sense the perspiration, the struggle of becoming, each breath thickening the air. \"Drink its water \/ and the universe expands invisibly \/ inside you.\" Spirit is a thing we make unto ourselves, and Declarations of Hunger is full of spirit. The world teeters on its fulcrum and Smith takes note, a kind of bravery in witness. This man's heart hits you like an ambush.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Joe Pan, author of Florida Palms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brooklyn Arts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936767601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d","brand":"Reed Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45234761138357,"sku":"9781936767601","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_88099697-1152-4a63-b937-810b197f400e.jpg?v=1743518682","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/declarations-of-hunger-9781936767601","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}