Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston If this sounds like an

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Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston If this sounds like anDescription Our Familiar Hunger is a book about the strength, will, struggle and fortitude of generations of women and how those relationships and knowledges interact, inform, transform and burden. These poems are memories of reclaimed history and attempts at starting over in a new place. They are the fractured reality of trickle down inheritance, studies of the epigenetic grief we carry and the myriad ways that interferes or interprets our best