What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems

• What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems
• Price: $16.00
• 978-1-949540-18-5
• March 15, 2021
• Poetry - PB
• Pages - 128
• Tom C. Hunley

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What Feels Like Love: New and Selected Poems brings a selection of new poems that grapple with the challenges of raising and autistic son, adopting a teenage daughter from foster care, and learning of a friend’s suicide together with the best work from Tom C. Hunley’s six previous collections.

Praise for Tom C. Hunley’s Poetry

“The new work of Tom C. Hunley included here shows the passion, muscle, and heart of his six previous collections and offers a glimpse of a bright future for a poet who continues to get better and better. The emotional punch of each one of these new poems is simply stunning.”
– Jim Daniels

“Why isn’t Tom C. Hunley a household name? We know Airwick and the Dyson Ball, but why isn’t Hunley . . . as familiar? Perhaps he’s not as funny as Jerry Seinfeld, but he’s certainly one of America’s funniest poets. . . . His diagnosis of the human condition is dire; yet, there is more than one consolation in his art. In payment for our willingness to follow him through some of the grittier alleys of self-absorption, we receive an invitation to self-awareness and the chance to laugh at ourselves.”
– Lee Rossi, New Orleans Review (review of Plunk)

“Winner of the 2007 Holland Prize from Logan House Press, Tom Hunley’s Octopus reaches out every one of its eight arms and pulls the reader in. The poems cover the speaker’s misspent youth, his early marriage, the loss of an infant to SIDS, divorce, new love, remarriage, a career in teaching, and the births of three sons – a lifetime requiring eight arms. . . . With the skill and grace of a juggler, Hunley handles a variety of topics and techniques, moving sinuously from one poem to the next and offering a multitude of pleasures.”
– Diane Lockward, The Texas Review

“Here Lies, Tom C. Hunley’s new poetry collection, boasts a bigger body count than most summer blockbusters – but the body always belongs to him. Hunley fakes his own death dozens of times within these verses, presumably taking the sting out of death by challenging it to a staring contest. . . . Saying the poet, musician and professor at Western Kentucky University possesses a gallows humor qualifies as a true understatement.”
– Aarik Danielsen, The Englewood Review of Books