It Is As If Desire Author|Bridget Reistad is about more than the

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“Hunger itself becomes the very reality of exile… that hungering becomes the deeper hungering for home that plagues the displaced

It Is As If Desire Author|Bridget Reistad is about more than theIt Is As If Desire is a collection of occasional poems (poems written for specific occasions) that examine, deconstruct, disrupt, and celebrate love and friendship. The language of these 10 line poems (which one critic has called "foreshortened sonnets") is taut, while their spirit is open and loose. As the title suggests, these poems see love and desire as often conditional, fragmentary states. In this dialectic between life and love, it is up to the