Soft Hunger

By Lucrezia Brambillaschi

Soft Hunger is a beautiful collection of poetry that treads the delicate line between intimate and public, between talking to oneself and talking to a crowd.

Pain, loss, heartbreak, depression and, above all else, always, the crowning glory of existence: love - these are the core themes you will find in this collection. But also the struggle of being part of a so-called minority, the pride in finally finding and being comfortable with one's own identity, the compelling need to change the world and the audacity to try and do that through words.

Through a continuous movement between the inside and the outside, the soft-spoken and the screamed, the obvious and the implied, this collection of poetry takes the reader into the intricacies of feelings, offering raw honesty, brutal emotion and the reassurance that no one is alone, we're all human after all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393585916

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SOFT HUNGER

Lucrezia Brambillaschi

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Copyright © 2020 Lucrezia Brambillaschi.

ISBN 978-1-913762-11-7

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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PART ONE: HEART-SHAPED HOLES

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PART TWO: WHY WOULD THEY DENY US THE TRUTH?

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PART THREE: THINGS OTHERS WILL NEVER KNOW

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PART FOUR: LOVE IS PRACTICE

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PART ONE:

HEART-SHAPED HOLES

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Jacques Lacan

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So lonely

I wrote letters to the emptiness inside me.

No one wrote back.

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Here we are once again at the precipice of a new month

still unprepared

for an event that always occurs every thirty days or so.

Turn the pages of the calendar

like turning your mind over

and over again, trying

oh my gods I am trying

trying to understand why

why does every little change charge my chest with another

another

heavy stone to carry –

but hold your chin up

do not slump your shoulders, come on, how hard can it be?

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