Heat by H.D.
This morning was one of those heavy, humid mornings, hotter and sunnier than a morning has any right to be before 9 o’clock. It put me in mind of […]
Tag Archives: poetry
Sound Bites: William Carlos Williams
“To be hungry is to be great”–William Carlos Williams “To be hungry is to be great” is the name of a poem from a collection called An Early Martyr and […]
Sound Bites: Li-Young Lee
“Every poem is like a potato latke.”–Li-Young Lee I’ve taken this quote somewhat out of context because I love the vivid image it conjures. I’ve only made latkes or […]
Link Buffet: the reasoning for the seasoning
In case you missed it at this blog, I described some of the different ways food and other ingested substances were managed at Eastern State when it was a penitentiary: How and […]
Sound Bites: Gertrude Stein
“If you enjoy it, you understand it.”–Gertrude Stein This quote is taken from an interview between Stein and a radio interviewer called William Lundell. This interview took place during Stein’s […]
The metaphors of mass consumerism
Inequality by (interior) Design, a smart sociology blog you should be following if you aren’t already, included a shout-out to Janice Radway in a post describing the way books written […]
Why is it so hard to get a good food anthology together?
One of my coworkers forwarded me the NYT review of a new anthology of food poems, The Hungry Ear. It was an ambivalent review to say the least; overall, the […]
Eating Paper
I’ve been meaning for awhile to read up on pica, the desire to eat non-nutritive substances like chalk or pebbles or hair. When I feel safe to lift my self-imposed […]
Federico Garcia Lorca’s alimentary allusions
It’s difficult for me to write about Federico Garcia Lorca because I do not read Spanish and struggle with the reliability of translations. But I keep coming to this poetry […]
