Julia Hungry, the winner of the eighteenth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press, will be published on March 12, 2024. Preorders through the press are open until December 28th 2023.
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“Never has the male gaze been so irreverently, so devastatingly turned back upon itself. For wit, for cultural grasp, for sheer technical brilliance, those virtuosic poet-lovers of the English Renaissance have finally met a worthy sparring partner.” - Linda Gregerson
“Not since Auden has pastiche been handled like this.” - Jesse Nathan
“Hannah Louise Poston startles her readers into understanding even their most basic perceptions newly—in the kitchen,’ she writes, ‘it smells like old pears / as if a thumb pressed gently on the surface of the air / would poke a fissure through to warm rot,’ and one feels as if one for the first time understands smell. But perhaps more important than that particular understanding is the awareness of the unification of senses—in the simile, the sense of smell and the sense of touch—one derives from the lines. In Julia Hungry, Poston's is a unifying vision—not naively so, but in response to a world of discontinuities. Julia Hungry is a healing book that makes its wound." - Shane McCrae
“Julia Hungry is canny and powerful, but also hilarious and debased, in the way that undressing a body can reveal both erotic delight and the awkwardness of limbs. With a rare skill for poetic form, Hannah Louise Poston's captivating debut reveals the monstrous—by which I mean the marvelous—lurking within the quiet spaces of the kitchen or the garden: ‘Womanhood reared / its ugly head,' writes Poston, brilliantly; ‘head that doubles / each time it's severed.’” - Tung-Hui Hu