Appetite
Subtitle: food as metaphor : an anthology of women poets
By: edited by Phyllis Stowell and Jeanne Foster ; preface by Charlotte Turgeon.
Contributors: Stowell, Phyllis.; Foster, Jeanne, 1941-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: BOA anthology series ;; no. 1
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Food -- Poetry; Cookery -- Poetry; Appetite -- Poetry; Gastronomy -- Poetry; Food habits -- Poetry; Dinners and dining -- Poetry; American poetry -- Women authors
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "In poems from as varied women poets as Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton, and Anne Sexton, food emerges as a reoccurring and central metaphor in the way women live, in the pulse of the everyday, and as a vehicle for the exotic. From coffee to caviar, from potatoes to dandelions - even in hunger and anorexia - the metaphors of food have worked like yeast in the imaginations of these poets."--BOOK JACKET.