Our Familiar Hunger

Laisha Rosnau
Publisher: Nightwood Editions

Book Description

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 attempts. 

Author Bio

Laisha Rosnau is the author of  The Sudden Weight of Snow, which was an honourable mention for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Rosnau’s first collection of poetry, Notes on Leaving, won the 2005 Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award. Her second,  Lousy Explorers, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.