{"product_id":"kitchen-apocrypha-poems-hardcover","title":"Kitchen Apocrypha: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Emilio\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Emilio's \u003cem\u003eKitchen Apocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e delves richly and sensuously into food as sustenance, ritual, pleasure, and temptation. Drawing upon his food service experiences, Emilio contemplates hunger, abundance, community, and solitude through the lens of culinary arts. He navigates meals ranging from sacred family recipes to unassuming roadside diners, sprinkling biblical and mythological allusions throughout. Central to his narrative is a deep reverence for food's power to nourish not just the body, but the spirit and human connection as well. A finalist for the 2021 Able Muse Book Award, \u003cem\u003eKitchen Apocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e offers a feast both earthy and sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eKITCHEN APOCRYPHA\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poet is a professor of the five senses, Lorca taught us. Gregory Emilio understands this beautifully. There are prayers here and songs of wonder, there is a communal voice and one of solitude. There is elegy and rhapsody. This book is alive. As Emilio writes in one unforgettable page (a cento!): \"Saint Anthony, patron of sausage makers, \/ guide my pen and unkink my tongue. I sing \/ of a hog theater where hogs performed as men.\" Gorgeous, surprising work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003cem\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fact that food, like sex, mediates for us with death provides the guiding metaphor for Gregory Emilio's ingenious book \u003cem\u003eKitchen Apocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e, which might equally well be titled \u003cem\u003eKitchen Epiphany\u003c\/em\u003e. Beginning with a delightful amatory \/gustatory rewrite of Yeats's \"Leda and the Swan\" (\"we stumbled out of the bedroom, dizzy \/ and undone, rapt and abandoned: hungry\"), this collection riffs on many foodstuffs, spinning through poetic forms as it does so. It examines food service as well as food; it examines anorexia as well as satiety. The elemental fire by which food becomes food is felt also as the Paradise (California) wildfire, for the contents and activities of the kitchen, Emilio suggests, are a way of understanding the world. The true hospitality here is not an industry but a sacred duty to the stranger (to the reader), what the Greeks call xenia. This book is good company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Karl Kirchwey, author of \u003cem\u003eStumbling Blocks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough Jesus assured us that we could not live by bread alone, still manna from heaven manifested itself as bread, and the eucharist is a meal of bread and wine. Food is both literal and metaphorical. The poetry in \u003cem\u003eKitchen Apocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e, about the preparation and consumption and worship of food, is a cuisine of muchness and plenty, and delicious in the richness of its vocabulary and invention. By the end of the book, you may feel stuffed, but you'll want more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Mark Jarman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Heronry \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Emilio is a poet and food writer from southern California. His poems and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGastronomica\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e[PANK]\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eRumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSouthern Humanities Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He holds an MFA from the University of California Riverside, and a PhD in English from Georgia State University. A mean home cook and avid cyclist, he lives in Atlanta and teaches at Kennesaw State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749059494176,"sku":"9781773491707","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bfece56aab6dfb95e41969a205980ac9.webp?v=1779923997","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/kitchen-apocrypha-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}