Something Hungry Just Woke Up: Poems

By Amanda Dzimianski

In this debut full-length collection, poet Amanda Dzimianski fiercely interrogates tangled paradoxes of defiance and surrender, integration and division, persistent hope and ravening hunger. Thirty-three confessional and narrative poems grapple with the universality of polysemantic loss, uncrossable divides, and mental unhealth.

Dzimianski navigates the hairline fractures and mile-wide canyons of what fractures us, both relationally and within our own psyches, through an attendance to the cyclicity of seasons and the highly personal lens of growing up in a cultic religious environment. Containing cameos from the beloved Emily Dickinson and Wendell Berry, alongside silent angels, untamed elements, and voracious inner exiles, Something Hungry draws together electric snippets of memory and fuzz-edged dreams to hold vigil for the multitudes we contain.

Residing at the crossroads of exorcism and alchemy, this collection sits compassionately with the doubting and the disenchanted, the too-long dormant self, and the feral sense of famishment always pulsing beneath our human surfaces.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FL7VJ9ZQ
• ISBN13: 9798986941127
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Amanda Dzimianski
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"