I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin. Lynn Emanuel More Quotes by Lynn Emanuel More Quotes From Lynn Emanuel Begin with loss and see Lynn Emanuel hope loss islands Despite my lovely diction I am going to die. Lynn Emanuel diction despite lovely To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut. Lynn Emanuel identity desire book