Ravenous: New & Selected Poems by Rick Mulkey provides new and returning readers an opportunity to consider recent and previously published work in a collection containing wide stylistic variety with deep unifying themes and concerns. From an 18th Century Persian village to the porches and homestead's of the Appalachian South, these poems counterpoint the sorrowful with the joyful, exploring how "even in the soul's grim mines, one tuned string/perfectly plucked could make us believe all would be right."