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We Are Starved.(Brief article)(Book review)
We Are Starved
Joshua Kryah. CLP (Univ. of Oklahoma, dist.), $16.95 (82p) ISBN 978-1-885635-17-4
Through the jagged couplets and one-line stanzas of Kryah's second collection of poems runs an unsettling but graceful drama of consumption and consolation. In an act of "canrtibalization" of spiritually minded sources (Yeats, John Donne, St. Augustine, others) that is less a quest than it is the creation era sustained state of existence, Kryah (Glean) opens up a space in which the reality of the body can be explored and made significant without sacrificing the metaphysical: "that darkness," he writes, "though the habitation of jackals, of wolves, of boys beating the …
