Taste & See Food Poems

Poems of Food by these fine authors: Denise Levertov, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Louise Bogan, Frank O'Hara, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, James Wright,William Carlos Williams,Maggie Anderson, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Susan Azar Porterfield, Susan Jelus,Karen Rigby, Jimmy Santiago Baca,Robert Flanagan, Thom Tammaro,Terry Kirts, Edmund Conti, Gabriel Welsch, Barbara Crooker, David Lee Garrison, Ingrid Wendt, Lynn Powell, Lois Beebe Hayna, Daryl Ngee Chinn, Carolyn Forch, Cathy Lentes, Ayelet Ammitay, Gail Bellamy, Kevin Prufer, Susan Terris, Susan McGowan, Sarah Kennedy, Stuart Lishan, Li-Young Lee, Wendy Bishop, Grey Held, Grace Butcher, Susan Grimm, Lynn Powell, Ann Stanford, Steve Wilson, Don Bogen, Robert Hass, Deanna Pickard, John Hershman, Kathrine Varnes, Julia Levine, Wendell Berry, Ann Townsend, Pattiann Rogers, Allen Braden, Imogene Bolls, Mark Doty, F. Richard Thomas, Jonathan Anderson, James Cummins, Kay Sloan, William Heyen, Myrna Stone, Charles Simic, Yvonne Hardenbrook, Jim Heynan, David Hassler, Annie Finch, W.S. Merwin, Rita Dove, Vivian Shipley, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Rebecca McClanahan, Gerald Stern, Michael Waters, Pamela Uschuk, John Logan, Diane Wakoski, Erica Jong, Natasha Saj, Larry Smith, Judith Strasser, Joyce Sutphen, David Starkey, Betty Greenway, Karen Kovacik, Kathy Fagan, Paola Corso, Jared Carter, Bonnie Jacobson, Robert Brimm, Tara Miller, Ira Sadoff, Robert Fox, Jane Hirschfield, Billy Collins, Christopher Merrill, Terry Hermsen, Jeff Gundy, William Greenway, Nan Arbuckle, Collette Inez, Francis Smith, Frank Polite, Patti Capel Swartz, Cyril Dostal, Martha Silano, Colleen J. McElroy, Elton Glaser, Daniel Lusk, Willis Barnstone, Richard Hague, David Petreman, David Citino, Herbert Martin, Andrew Hudgins, Clarinda Harris, Maggie Jaffe, Susan Rich, Eugene Gloria, David Baker, Ralph Black, Cathryn Essinger

200 delicious pages of modern poems about the common subject of food...It includes sections of Friends, Family, World, Gardens, Stories, Odes, Love, Market, Recipes. Over a hundred of America's finest poets share their poems of food.

From Dayton City Paper, Nick Obis: Despite its slim design, however, this book covers it all, from pomegranates to prosciutto, lima beans to loganberry jam. Susan Azar Porterfield offers an exotic recipe for "Kibbe," made with "pine nuts and minced lamb, / cinnamon bark from an East India tree," while Terry Kirts mulls the ultimate comfort food, macaroni and cheese: "And I think about the blue and white box, the pouch / of day-glo powder, the lonely square of margarine melting / into golden rivulets in the murky white saucepan." There are references to meatloaf, chutney, blood oranges, cheese log, borscht, peach cobbler, chocolate mousse, capellini with pesto, baloney sandwiches, papaya juice, and cherry pie. There's even an allusion to the Donner Party. Although the book includes a few familiar favorites, like Robert Frost's "After Apple-Picking" and William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just To Say," it also features a number of lesser-known poets and more than 30 Ohioans, including Herbert Martin, Susan Jelus, Myrna Stone, and Imogene Bolls. Perhaps as a result of the Ohio connection, most of the poems are simple and satisfying, like an easy Midwest meal. There is little need for the literary equivalent of tarragon gnocchi with infused veal reduction. These writers know that olive oil is no substitute for lard, that there is no shame in a seven-layer salad, and that trans-fatty acids are delicious. "Some people just don't know / how good greasy tastes," Nan Arbuckle wrote. "One good mouthful and I was safe."

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