{"product_id":"the-authority-of-hunger-poems-paperback","title":"The Authority of Hunger: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Goring\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo rivers course through Ruth Goring's poems: a cold river of hunger, a shimmering river of joy. The reader rides these deep waters with the poet, encountering a world whose hunger carries holiness. On a city bus, recorded announcements become a liturgy; the poet walks in snowfall and hears spirits whispering from the ground; late-night jazz improvisation transmutes to ecstatic church. Goring is a world citizen, attentive to hunger for justice among families of the disappeared in Colombia, doctors in Syria, West Bank teenagers. The English language with all its riches is insufficient for this hunger, and so Spanish tumbles onto the page from time to time, sometimes in entire poems with elegant translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Authority of Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e opens up a ravine of vulnerability, \"the murk \/ born in me,\" trusting the reader as a companion and fellow pilgrim. We enter an intimacy both public and private: love, neocolonialism, racism, personal violations, loneliness, unbearable family stories, forgiveness, mending. In this \"physical humidity of thought,\" Goring's words become garments for our own grief, bread to assuage our hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67857860165939,"sku":"9781594982460","price":29.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/gsbkSTf-Nf9781594982460.webp?v=1793572288","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-authority-of-hunger-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}