The Butcher's Apron: New & Selected Poems

by Diane Wakoski

Book Overview

as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life

"All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574231448
• ISBN13: 9781574231441
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"