In this debut full-length collection, poet Amanda Dzimianski fiercely interrogates tangled paradoxes of defiance and surrender, integration and division, persistent hope and ravening hunger. Thirty-three confessional and narrative poems grapple with themes of multifaceted loss, uncrossable divides, and mental health.

Dzimianski navigates the grief, fracture, and fervency of restive craving through an attendance to the cyclicity of seasons and via the highly personal lens of growing up in a cultic religious environment. Containing cameos from the beloved Emily Dickinson and Wendell Berry, alongside silent angels, untamed elements, and voracious inner exiles, Something Hungry draws together electric snippets of fury and soft-edged dreams to hold vigil for the multitudes we contain.

Residing at the crossroads of exorcism and alchemy, this collection sits compassionately with the doubting and the disenchanted, liberates the too-long dormant self, and gives voice to the feral sense of famishment always pulsing beneath our human surfaces.