Something Hungry Just Woke Up: Poems

In this debut full-length collection, poet Amanda Dzimianski fiercely interrogates tangled paradoxes of defiance and surrender, integration and division, persistent hope and ravening hunger. Thirty-three confessional and narrative poems grapple with themes of multifaceted loss, uncrossable divides, and mental health.

Dzimianski navigates the grief, fracture, and fervency of restive craving through an attendance to the cyclicity of seasons and via the highly personal lens of growing up in a c...