Pantry
"The whisk and the pie bird, the skillet and spoon. InPantry, Lilah Hegnauer exalts kitchen articles and utensils, their graspable measure of handles, solidity of copper, the comparative impermanence of their bodies in relation to ours. Like Stein and Ponge, Hegnauer uncovers the magical and tremendously affecting life of objects in each crenature, joint and flange." ----D. A. Powell, author ofUseless Landscape: A Guide for Boys"Pantryis no Food Network test kitchen, no fusty closet of canned goods. Erotic, witty, smart, playful, these poems make the quotidian realm of objects an occasion for wooing, meditation, and praise. Think of the Gertrude Stein ofTender Buttonsmeeting Emily Dickinson ("Vesuvius at Home") in a throw-down match where what's at stake is the veracity and voracity of female desire, and you'll have a sense of the spell cast by this intoxicating wunderkammer of a book." --Lisa Spaar, author ofVanitas, Rough"Pantryis no Food Network test kitchen, no fusty closet of canned goods. Erotic, witty, smart, playful, these poems make the quotidian realm of objects an occasion for wooing, meditation, and praise. Think of the Gertrude Stein ofTender Buttonsmeeting Emily Dickinson ("Vesuvius at Home") in a throw-down match where what's at stake is the veracity and voracity of female desire, and you'll have a sense of the spell cast by this intoxicating wunderkammer of a book." --Lisa Spaar, author ofVanitas, Rough