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Tag Archives: poetry

Heat by H.D.

July 18, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

  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 […]

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Fruit, Poetry

Sound Bites: William Carlos Williams

May 2, 2016by Sara Davis Leave a comment

  “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 […]

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Food in the City, Poetry, Sound Bites

Sound Bites: Li-Young Lee

March 9, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

  “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 […]

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Literature, Sound Bites

Link Buffet: the reasoning for the seasoning

October 27, 2015by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Link Buffet, Painting

Sound Bites: Gertrude Stein

May 24, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

“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 […]

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Poetry, Sound Bites

The metaphors of mass consumerism

June 3, 2013by Sara Davis 3 Comments

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 […]

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Consumer Culture, Cultural connotations, Disgust, Language, Non-food, Poetry

Why is it so hard to get a good food anthology together?

October 27, 2012by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Language, Literature, Novels, Poetry, Reviews

Eating Paper

October 7, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

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 […]

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Non-food, Pica, Poetry

Federico Garcia Lorca’s alimentary allusions

May 5, 2011by Sara Davis 2 Comments

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 […]

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Anthropomorphism, Fruit, Literature, Mortality, Poetry

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