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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
Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. She was
granted a Barbara Deming Money for Women Award and was a winner of
the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Poetry Prize. Her
publications include Assent to Solitude, Who Is Alice?, and
Sequence and Consequence, an Alchemical Journal. She publishes
poetry, criticism, and poetry reviews.Jeanne Foster is a Professor
in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Saint Mary's College of
California. Her critical book, A Music of Grace, explores the
vision of the sacred in contemporary American poetry, and her
poetry collection, A Blessing of Safe Travel, won the Quarterly
Review of Literature Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in
Triquarterly, Hudson Review, North American Review, Ploughshares,
and other journals.
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