{"product_id":"the-hungry-ear-poems-of-food-and-drink","title":"The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink","description":"\u003cp\u003eFood 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 foods elemental pleasures. And we all know food is more than food: its identity and culture. Our days are marked by meals; our seasons are marked by celebrations. We plant in spring; harvest in fall. We labor over hot stoves; we treat ourselves to special meals out. Food is nurture; its comfort; its reward. While some of the poems here are explicitly about the food itself: the blackberries  the butter  the barbecue--all are evocative of the experience of eating.  Many of the poems are also about the everything else that accompanies food: the memories  the company  even the politics. Kevin Young  distinguished poet  editor of this years Best American Poetry  uses the lens of food - and his impeccable taste - to bring us some of the best poems  classic and current  period.  Poets include: Elizabeth Alexander  Elizabeth Bishop  Billy Collins  Mark Doty  Robert Frost  Allen Ginsberg  Louise Gluck  Seamus Heaney  Tony Hoagland  Langston Hughes  Galway Kinnell  Frank OHara  Sharon Olds  Mary Oliver  Adrienne Rich  Theodore Roethke  Matthew Rohrer  Charles Simic  Tracy K. Smith  Gertrude Stein  Wallace Stevens  Mark Strand  Kevin Young\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966678888501,"sku":"ByrdShop_1608197689","price":75.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781608197682.jpg?v=1770574094","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-hungry-ear-poems-of-food-and-drink","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}