Sign-In
Cart
The Madness of Chefs: New and Selected Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781944585150
Publisher: Word Works
Published: Feb 1 2017
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Her poetry is earthy, sometimes bawdy, the natural world presented without sentimentality, but with imagery so vivid it will take your breath away. Hers was a leaping mind--intuitive, free from the constraints of reason, free to fly with apparently little effort. Yet her poems are also infused with plain speech, Zen-like in their purity. --Barbara Goldberg, author of The Royal Baker's Daughter and Kingdom of Speculation
Elaine's poems are deceptively simple, but are wise and complex things. She had a unique way of taking the tiny and finding the big, and reducing the big into a tiny detail, the way a heron stands, or the taste of key lime pie. The Madness of Chefs is an apt title. Elaine's poems are full of food: crispy chicken skin, raisin cake, oranges and apples, and of course, her sister's tongue and brother's dry heart. --Catherine Harnett, author of Still Life and Evidence
Elaine could not lie. Her intelligence and character were such that she could not engage in the usual diplomatic platitudes and evasions that for most people soothe and lubricate the rough edges of their interactions. She could not lie, but she could leap, and her poems, full of wild humor, imagination, and acute perception, are touched with that higher madness that makes for sublimest sanity. --Jean Nordhaus, author of The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn and Innocence
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Paperback
A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup, Celebrating Community, Friendship, and Resilience
Jackson, Major
Hardcover
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback