{"product_id":"declarations-of-hunger-paperback","title":"Declarations of Hunger - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eReed Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45859489185989,"sku":"9781936767601","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/RARSjlPAUx9781936767601.webp?v=1771527149","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/declarations-of-hunger-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}