We are Starved [Paperback]

Joshua Kryah is redefining what it means to write spiritual poetry. This is not another book about longings for the spiritual; this is a book of offerings to the spiritual. These poems answer the plea of Yeats's spirits ('We are starved') and give them what they crave, depicting the particulars of human appetite and the way each 'peculiar and appalling hunger' unfolds. The scope of these poems is dizzying; they echo and glitter and sear as they, against all odds, give us a'world [that] is/suddener than any idea about the world.'We Are Starvedis unabashed and unflinching, and it is deeply, exquisitely satisfying.
-Mary Szybist, author ofGranted
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Joshua Kryah is redefining what it means to write spiritual poetry. This is not another book about longings for the spiritual; this is a book of offerings to the spiritual. These poems answer the plea of Yeats's spirits ('We are starved') and give them what they crave, depicting the particulars of human appetite and the way each 'peculiar and appalling hunger' unfolds. The scope of these poems is dizzying; they echo and glitter and sear as they, against all odds, give us a'world [that] is/suddener than any idea about the world.'We Are Starvedis unabashed and unflinching, and it is deeply, exquisitely satisfying.
-Mary Szybist, author ofGranted
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Through the jagged couplets and one-line stanzas of Kryah's second collection of poems runs an unsettling but graceful drama of consumption and consolation... Kryah opens up a space in which the reality of the body can be explored and made significant without sacrificing the metaphysical.
Publisher's Weekly

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