Receipt: Poems

by Karen Leona Anderson

Book Overview

"Deft and insightful." --WASHINGTON POST

In her "resonant and witty" (Washington Post) 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. In these poems, the pie is a cultural artifact and Betty Crocker, icon of domesticity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571314725
• ISBN13: 9781571314727
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"