Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston Some personas are capitalist mascots

Some personas are capitalist mascots like the Starbucks siren

to give me courage and strength

polar bears and mythic horses

"New Brunswick poet Matthew Holmes

Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston Some personas are capitalist mascotsDescription 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