How to Eat a Raspberry

By Jan Duncan-O'Neal

"These poems are going to make you hungry-and not only for food. Jan Duncan-O'Neal's How to Eat a Raspberry opens our senses. Each poem savors a moment of experience so intimately and essentially that we cannot help but be reminded that it's not enough just to be alive-we must be fully alive." Andrea Hollander, author of Landscape with a Female Figure "Among these pages of love, loss, family, and travel, the poems are woven together by great works of art and joy and sensuality of food. Here is a world of still lifes and exhibitions. Monet and Matisse, of peaches, souffl?s, Cornish cream, or "brioche/plump as a bride's bosom." Basil sorbet kisses crab cakes, an orange undresses itself, and a raspberry is a "symphony of flavors." Art and food triumph over life's disappointments and catastrophic events. Bing Crosby and Kodak prints may elicit nostalgia, historic events may return you to war, but, throughout, Jan Duncan-O'Neal's poems will feed you well." Maryfrances Wagner, author of Dioramas "In How to Eat a Raspberry, Jan Duncan-O'Neal explores a wide range of human experiences-a tragic circus fire, the indelible dynamics of family, the inspiration of an Edward Hopper painting, lost loves, the sensuousness of a Safeway produce aisle-and reports back with passion and exacting detail. Reading her work, I am led to think of my own life in a different way, and that, to me, is what good poetry offers. With the power and delicacy of "a feather lodged in a willow branch," How to Eat a Raspberry brings to the reader piercing truth, joy, and a sometimes unsettling enlightenment." Jo McDougall, author of In the Home of the Famous Dead

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692629661
• ISBN13: 9780692629666
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"