newsletter-2019

For Hunger by Margaret Ronda

For Hunger by Margaret Ronda

Tell us about your new book. What is its central project?

For Hunger is a book of poetry that dwells in the spaces of reproductive labor -- caring for an ill person and a young child, housework, cooking -- and explores their essential bodily conditions and affective states. Hunger, in all its many forms, is at the center of these poems.

What got you started thinking about this set of problems in this way? 

Professor Miller gives us a sneak-peak at her NEH- & Guggenheim-winning book project.

Professor Miller gives us a sneak-peak at her NEH- & Guggenheim-winning book project.

Dr. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller’s new book project "Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion, 1830s-1930s” has landed two high profile fellowships this year from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and also from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. We sat down with Liz to find out more about her much-anticipated book.

 

How did you get started working on this set of problems?