Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston it engages us with the

it engages us with the realism of its characters and the momentum of its narrative

plants and birds which did not get picked up by browsing a field guide

places and nature equally well

In his unique stories

relationships with Elders

Our Familiar Hunger Mark Winston it engages us with theDescription 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