Elizabeth Cohen's ambitious newest book of poems, The Patron Saint of Cauliflower, explores both safety and danger; twinning domesticity with apocalyptic fantasies. In this book of poems that pairs the love and safety of a mother's kitchen with the dark and impending disasters that inhabit our world today, Cohen writes of the "pure muscle" of the cabbage; the "stand-up act" of the artichoke and her love of chocolate ("it's a cowgirl...
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