"There was a time in my early twenties when I thought I could actually make a living as a poet. You can go ahead and laugh at that a bit if you’d like, because I am. But what can I say, I was young, I was high as a kite most of the time, and I was in love with the idea of creating art-for-art's sake. I'd figure how I would keep a roof over my head with poetry somehow." -- From the Introduction of All Those Hungry Mouths
Much like the short stories of Keith Rawson, the poems in All Those Hungry Mouths is filled with the desperate and the lonely; with criminals and victims; with the saved and the ruined. But despite the darkness of each piece, there is a spark of familiarity where we see ourselves.