In poems from as varied women poets as Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton, and Anne Sexton, food emerges as a re-occurring and central metaphor in the way women live, in the pulse of the everyday, and as a vehicle for the exotic. From coffee to caviar, from potatoes to dandelions--even in hunger and anorexia--the metaphors of food have worked like yeast in the imagination of these poets.

Preface by Chef Charlotte Turgeon.

Phyllis Stowell initiated the Saint Mary's College of California MFA program. She is a former Fellow of the Camargo Foundation and was a Dewitt...

"Goodbye, Silver Sister," Jeanne Foster s second collection of poems, opens with a series of poems about a girl coming of age in pre-Katrina New Orleans, informed and haunted by the magic of the city. The powerful Pearl River forms the dividing line between adulthood and other worlds, both geographic and existential: death, divorce, and the thousand other ways I would lose faith in the breastplate of love.

The collection is also an elegy for and tribute to the poet s parents, who met in the WPA Artists Project. Through her poems she keeps them alive and is also able to say good-bye....