{"product_id":"appetite-food-as-metaphor-an-anthology-of-women-poets","title":"Appetite: Food as Metaphor","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn poems from such women as Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath, 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 imagination of these poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes poems by Eavan Boland, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, Carolyn Forche, Isabella Gardner, Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, Marilyn Hacker, Jane Hirschfield, Linda Hogan, Shirley Kaufman, Jane Kenyon, Maxine Kumen, Denise Levertov, Joe-Anne McLaughlin, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Martha Rhodes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Sexton, Ntozaki Shange, Jean Valentine, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe Traveling Onion\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I think how far the onion has traveled\u003cbr\u003ejust to enter my stew today, I could kneel and praise\u003cbr\u003eall small forgotten miracles,\u003cbr\u003ecrackly paper peeling on the drainboard,\u003cbr\u003epearly layers in smooth agreement,\u003cbr\u003ethe way knife enters onion\u003cbr\u003eand onion falls apart on the chopping block,\u003cbr\u003ea history revealed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I would never scold the onion\u003cbr\u003efor causing tears. \u003cbr\u003eIt is right that tears fall\u003cbr\u003efor something small and forgotten.\u003cbr\u003eHow at meal, we sit to eat,\u003cbr\u003ecommenting on texture of meat or herbal aroma\u003cbr\u003ebut never on the translucence of onion,\u003cbr\u003enow limp, now divided, \u003cbr\u003eor its traditionally honorable career: \u003cbr\u003eFor the sake of others,\u003cbr\u003edisappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8418167941,"sku":"9781929918249","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/APPETITE.jpg?v=1527683173","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/appetite-food-as-metaphor-an-anthology-of-women-poets","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}