A Hunger

A HungerBy: Lucie Brock Broido Brock Broidos talismanic words open into a magical territory of Domestic Mysticism . . . A violently skewed portrait of the female poet and her Muse, a hyped up version of Stevens and his interior paramour, locked in a soliloquy in which being there together is enough . . . Something in Brock Broido likes stealth, toxicity, wildness, neonperfect mean lines . . . The poems lead off the page. Helen Vendler, The New Yorker These

and now he is certain that Jurek has an accomplice

illuminates these many heroes of the Trump years

Following her widely hailed

But then his newborn sister dies

Tasty recipes designed with optimal nutrients

creaky daytime noises that keep him (and his mother) from getting a good day’s rest

an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life

Have they replaced unrealistic expectations with unexpected realness

Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help

“When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book

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whose relentlessly upbeat attitude seems ready-made for social media