The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink

by Linda E. Mitchell

Book Overview

Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular joy for the mouth. Poems about food make these satisfactions explicit and complete. Of course, pages can and have been filled about food's elemental pleasures. And we all know food is more than food: it's identity and culture. Our days...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608195511
• ISBN13: 9781608195510
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"