Hunger

Hunger

Inspired by the psychological dimensions of Anne Sexton's confessional poetry, Carabajal's collection, Hunger , emerges from an artistic ethic in which poetry is not simply a daily praxis, but a survival mechanism-a reason to live. Poetry is not only confessional in Carabajal's work, it is redemptive , charting the art of healing through a hunger that turns desire inside out to find language as the deepest form of intimacy. Blurring the line between journaling, confession, and refuge, Carabajal explores the process by which we refine the truths we can tell ourselves. Maia Spring Carabajal is a poet, scholar, and musician currently living in Northern California. She began writing in her teens after being introduced to the Beat poets and Anne Sexton. Her early work was regularly featured in the anarchist art zine, Pages Per Content. Carabajal is presently completing dual degrees in psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Davis.