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Declarations of Hunger
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781936767601
Publisher: Brooklyn Arts Press
Published: Mar 15 2025
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
-Allison Adair, author of The Clearing
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.
-Joe Fletcher, author of The Hatch
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.
-Joe Pan, author of Florida Palms
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