Receipt: Poems
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- Synopsis
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In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents — recipes and receipts — into expressions of human identity.
From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. Like a theatrical script, the recipe directs action and conjures characters. Grace Kelly at a party. In these poems, the pie is a cultural artifact and Betty Crocker, icon of domesticity, looms large. From the little black dress ($49.99 Nordstroms) to an epidural ($25.00 co-pay), Anderson reveals life in the twenty-first century to be equally hampered and enabled by expenditures. Amidst personal and domestic economies, wildness proliferates — bats, deer, ocelots, and fungus — reminding the reader that not all can be assimilated, eaten, or spent.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 96 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781571319272
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781571314727
- Publisher:
- Milkweed Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 07/29/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Karen Leona Anderson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.