Consider the Oyster

by Blanche Brown

In 1941, MFK Fisher published Consider the Oyster; O, how the world and its ecology have changed since then Blanche Brown continues the celebration of the tasty bivalve within the context of a bulldozing, dam-building, oil-spilling world. The poem researches the animal through etymology, history, the news, and personal anecdote. But best of all we come to know it by feeling it thick on our tongue. Consider the Oyster is a delectable linguistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934832766
• ISBN13: 9781934832769
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: New Michigan Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 8.0"