A New Hunger by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

A New Hunger by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Beginning with a harrowing account of her childhood in a Belgian convent, where she was placed at the age of four, Laure-Anne Bosselaar shows us how early emotional and physical deprivation can be overcome by intelligence, humor, curiosity, and determination. Although many of her poems are overtly autobiographical, they are never merely personal.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn wrote of A New Hunger: "There's a time in the life of a poet as a maker of poems, if she or he is going to become more than just good, when the voice of one's second self fully emerges, distilling and orchestrating the poet's concerns, while simultaneously infusing them with an inner melody--a music that reaches and satisfies both ear and mind. This is to say that Laure-Anne Bosselaar, with her wonderful third book, A New Hunger, has become more than just good. It's an occasion to mark and to celebrate."

The acclaimed author of two previous collections (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, which won the 2001 Isabella Stewart Gardner Prize), Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium, where she worked as a talk show host, commentator, and voiceover for Belgian radio and television. Fluent in four languages, she moved to the United States in 1987.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Little Gods of Sorrow, which won the Isabella Gardner Award, and A New Hunger, which was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association, are among Laure-Anne Bosselaar's works. She is the editor of four anthologies and a Pushcart Prize winner, and she teaches at Pine Manor College's Solstice Low Residency MFA Program. Her next novel, These Many Rooms, will be released in early 2019 by Four Way Publishing.