“Hannah Louise Poston startles her readers into understanding even their most basic perceptions newly — in the kitchen,” she writes, ‘it smells like old pears / as if a thumb pressed gently on the surface of the air / would poke a fissure through to warm rot,’ and one feels as if one for the first time understands smell. But perhaps more important than that particular understanding is the awareness of the unification of senses — in the simile, the sense of smell and the sense of touch — one derives from the lines. In Julia Hungry, Poston’s is a unifying vision — not naively so, but in response to a world of discontinuities. Julia Hungry is a healing book that makes its wound.” —— Shane McCrae