The Hungriest Stars

With language flush with and supercharged by Eros, Carey Salerno's third book is a poet's elegy to her uterus, her love letter penned in an overcrowded room to autonomy and desire.

Having been debilitated and rendered infertile by endometriosis, endured rounds of infertility treatments that landed her in miscarriage and selective reduction treatments, and suffered a cancer scare that left her body incapable of conceiving, Carey Salerno responds with these maximalist poems.

Through them, she dives headfirst into the world with an intense hunger to live to the fullest, to release the shame she has amassed about her own body and its refusals to function. She reflects on and redefines what it means to be a woman when so much is taken from her.

The Hungriest Stars is a remarkable journey of survival, autonomy, and desire, where Salerno finds a new language to express her deepest struggles and triumphs.