My latest piece for Suite 101...
Eating Poetry and The Invention of Cuisine
Poems by Mark Strand and Carol Muske-Dukes
Eating Poetry leads the reader down a mysterious literary digestive tract, while The Invention of Cuisine views a plate of food as a palate, full of primitive imaginings.
From the opening stanza, Mark Strand's Eating Poetry sets a surreal ambiance around an insatiable desire for words, literally and figuratively.
And if the job of an artist is to provide their patrons with a bold new perspective by which to view things, then poet Carol Muske-Dukes fulfills such promise with The Invention of Cuisine.
Read more: http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/eating_poetry_and_the_invention_of_cuisine#ixzz0WzOtseS5
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