Hunger

<p>“Lola Haskins’s range is broad; her perceptions are always surprising. Natural objects surpass themselves and episodes of women’s history are rewritten in this lively adventuresome collection.”<br />—Maxine Kumin<br /><br />“ . . . <em>Hunger</em> is a cabinet of crystals each one with a cutting edge. It’s a wonder.”<br />—<em>Beloit Poetry Journal<br /><br /></em>“She knows we are rooted to the earth but long for the stars. . . . And she’s wise enough to know that love searches us out. Dazzling.”<br />—<em>Northwest Arkansas Times<br /><br /></em>“[The poems] richly present the experience of women as the complexity of their material emotional and imaginative lives presses against the constraints of their assigned roles. . . wonderfully evocative.”<br />—<em>The Hudson Review<br /><br /></em>“. . . Convincing and exquisitely visual. It plays off a painterly use of visualization and technique even as it enacts the limits of such artistry in the face of real feeling. . . . It is the clarity of Haskins’s poems and (her speakers’) observations combined with the sometimes elegant sometimes searing restraint with which the observations are made that gives these poems their impact.”<br />—<em>Colorado Review</em></p>