Wry and searching, wise and playful, Daniel Karasik's poetic voice is singular, the voice of an old soul navigating contemporary straits. Witty delight and precocious insight commingle in refreshingly accesible poems whose thrust is philosophical even when the poet is at his most irreverent. Hungry, Karasik's first collection of poetry, is an introduction to one of the bright literary lights of his generation.

Daniel Karasik is a writer of plays, poetry, and fiction. He is a winner of the CBC Literary Award for Fiction (2012) and the Toronto Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award (2013). His plays have been produced across Canada, in the US, and frequently in translation in Germany; The Biographer, produced in Toronto in 2013, garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding New Play. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Western Magazine Award for his fiction and the National Magazine Award for his poetry, he is the author of two previous books of plays published by Playwrights Canada Press, a poetry collection with Cormorant Books, and a short story collection forthcoming in 2017 from Guernica Editions. His newest plays are in development with Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, where he is an incoming playwright-in-residence, and Whynot Theatre; off-Broadway's The New Group; and the Stratford Festival, from which he holds a commission. He writes about art and politics at www.danielkarasik.com. Connect with Karasik on Twitter @daniel_karasik.

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“Daniel Karasik lays out an ambitious spread. Hungry is a feast—a table piled high with sushi restaurants and Greyhound buses, locker rooms and microscopes … the collection is replete with flash moments of insight, Karasik’s speaker laying aside his world weariness in the face of simple revelations.”

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