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This 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.

A stunning poetry follow-up to Laisha Rosnau's novel "The Sudden Weight of Snow." Winner of the 2005 Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Prize

Pluck" is a series of poems taking on issues of sexuality, female vulnerability and parenthood with delicacy and intent. In turn, Rosnau employs words that give way to feelings of both solid surety and waning doubts. From the harsh realities of sexual assault to the routine heaviness of child-rearing, Plucks sharp portrayals evoke how beyond the slick viscera, the sharp cries, the women brimming/ around the bed, is the memory of weight", or ho...

The second collection of poetry from the winner of the Acorn-Platos People's Poetry Prize.