{"product_id":"appetite-food-as-metaphor-an-anthology-of-women-poets-paperback","title":"Appetite: Food as Metaphor: An Anthology of Women Poets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhyllis Stowell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJeanne Foster\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn poems from as varied women poets as Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton, and Anne Sexton, food emerges as a re-occurring 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\u003cp\u003ePreface by Chef Charlotte Turgeon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhyllis Stowell \u003c\/i\u003einitiated the Saint Mary's College of California MFA program. She is a former Fellow of the Camargo Foundation and was a Dewitt Wallace\/Reader's Digest Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She was granted a Barbara Deming Money for Women Award and was a winner of the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Poetry Prize. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eAssent to Solitude, Who Is Alice?\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSequence and Consequence, an Alchemical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She publishes poetry, criticism, and poetry reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeanne Foster \u003c\/b\u003eis a Professor in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Saint Mary's College of California. Her critical book, A Music of Grace, explores the vision of the sacred in contemporary American poetry, and her poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eA Blessing of Safe Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Quarterly Review of Literature Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTriquarterly, Hudson Review, North American Review, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.46 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796778123552,"sku":"9781929918249","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6436c9b74a29690f6ba5f9e9e7ac2320.webp?v=1780767289","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/appetite-food-as-metaphor-an-anthology-of-women-poets-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}