Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road Kim La Fave The poems in Little Hunger

The poems in Little Hunger pick up from where his first collection

had offered a bribe in exchange for stepping down from a nomination race

while at the same time wryly acknowledging the peculiar and untrustworthy juxtaposition of poetry with the everyday: "Whatever you do

Whether she's describing enigmatic memories of her mother

These stories attest to Quednau’s belief that the most significant moments in our lives—the things that alter us—lie in the margins

Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road Kim La Fave The poems in Little HungerDescription In her debut short story collection, Quednau offers unsettling examinations of what really happened with rich, complex characters that might equally arouse our suspicions or sympathy: we pay attention. She gives voice to the interludes between actions, what almost occurred, or might yet, the skewed time of before and acute reckoning of afterward. Seemingly innocent gestures leave their marks in comeuppance: the blurt of an intimate