Title: The more extravagant feast : poems /
Authors: Green, Leah Naomi, 1983-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Year: 2020
Subjects: American poetry; American poetry
Abstract: The More Extravagant Feast focuses on the trophic exchanges of a human body with the world via pregnancy, motherhood, and interconnection--the acts of making and sustaining other bodies from one's own, and one's own from the larger world. Leah Naomi Green writes from attentiveness to the vast availability and capacity of the weedy, fecund earth and from her own human place within more-than-human life, death, and birth. Lyrically and spiritually rich, striving toward honesty and understanding, The More Extravagant Feast is an extraordinary book of awareness of our dependency on ecological systems--seen and unseen.
Contents: I. Seed and fugue -- Field guide to the chaparral -- Venison -- C-section -- Seed and fugue -- Week five: measure -- Week twelve: taproot -- Relativity -- Week thirty-eight: mitosis -- In cleaning -- Arrival -- II. River and fugue -- Narration, transubstantiation -- Night weaning -- To the cardinal, attacking his reflection in the window -- River and fugue -- Camera obscura -- Narrative -- III. And I you -- Week ten: plum -- The world tips back -- Week twenty: indulgences -- The death of my mother's father -- Yahrzeit -- Kaddish -- Hashem -- IV. The more extravagant feast -- almanac -- Week thirty-four: atomic -- Helping -- Furniture -- Waking up the bell -- Carrot -- Table -- Engagement.