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I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World

By Kendra DeColo
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World by Kendra DeColo digital book - Fable

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  • First printing: 2,000 copies.
  • Kendra DeColo is a poet, pop culture critic, and comics artist whose work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Columbia Journal, Los Angeles Review, Tin House, Bitch Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of the journal Nashville Review.
  • I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World is DeColo’s third collection of poems. Her first collection, Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), won the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa.
  • DeColo offers a fresh, assertive take on motherhood in poems that invert and scrutinize the typical “mommy poem.” Contemporary politics are similarly scrutinized for their impact on women’s rights. Strong appeal for feminist book clubs, birthing communities (doulas, lactation consultants, postpartum healing centers), and women-centered organizations founded during the #MeToo movement.
  • Strong regional appeal in New England, San Francisco, Nashville, and Portland, OR. The author has toured extensively in these areas and plans to return during her book tour.
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    5 Reviews

    3.5
    “Wish the book was as good at the title (but for real it only really talked about surface level feminist talking points and also the parasocialisation of politicians is not it, I don't care if hillary clinton is happy today she and her husband are war criminals)”
    “This serves big feminist vibes & major God is a Woman energy”

    About Kendra DeColo

    Kendra DeColo is the author of three poetry collections: I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World (BOA Editions, 2021), My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016), and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of a 2019 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has received awards and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Millay Colony, Split this Rock, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House, Waxwing, Los Angeles Review, Bitch Magazine, VIDA, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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