Declarations of Hunger
The debut collection of poetry from one of the brightest new voices driving the American poetry scene. Deeply rooted in atmosphere and conservationism, humane and utterly surprising, Reed Smith’swork challenges the notions of who we are and how we fit into our social and ecological environments.Review“Smth reminds us that until we can divest from our massy entailments, our dis-eased and “loulated bodies”persist with their sad animal hunger, drawing sustenance from the nitrate- and blood-soaked earth. America remains mostly fields—evn as we marginalize them in our digitally obsessed cultural imaginary—raaged by weather and industry, where “Femented / in Disneyworld bacteria, embryos fasciculate / in polluted foam.”These poems combat the trivialization of our food’sorigins and the fates of our waste, knowing the earth is a record of our devastations, yet our hope for survival.”–Jo Fletcher, author of The HatchFrom the Author“Th poems in