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Sometimes I am just in the mood to read poetry. To just take a peek at a sliver of life and see a fixed point in time read true with the echoes of the living universe. Yes. I Love poetry, and it kind of grows on you. With a food focused one it will make you hungry and the next time you eat blackberries during summer or a perfect peach or barbecue heat you will savor it longer after reading these finely written poems about food.
I love poetry in general, but there were few poems in this book that I enjoyed.
1) This book revived my interest in reading poetry2) It also brought me closer to an old friend. He used to be quite the chef, and I mailed him a poem I enjoyed. 3) There are tons of poems on berries, which inevitably remind me of berry picking, biking, and lazy summers with jam and toast.4) It features one of my all time favorite poems - Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg.5) All poems use food as a metaphor.What's not to love?
A well-curated poetry collection on a worthy topic. Regardless of your taste -- both in poetry and food -- you'll discover several poems that will make you want to find more by their author.Favorites include: "The Gospel of Barbecue," by Honoree Jeffers, "My Days Are Numbered" by Rick Moranis, "A Drinking Song" by Yeats, "Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil" by Les Murray, "Hot" by Craig Arnold, "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Mushrooms" by Sylvia Plath, and Rita Dove's "Grape Sh...
It was okay. Many of the poems are well known. There are a few that I really like, but many more that left me feeling annoyed. There are so many poems here that have nothing to do with food or drink. Just because a poem has the word "table" in it does not mean it's about food. The Introduction by Young is rambling and awkward, in need of an editor.
One of the best poetry anthologies I’ve read. Organized carefully like a cookbook. Many different flavors of writing that when mixed make the perfect dish.
Years ago I read a self-indulgent love poem to wine, a sassy, elegant thing that I can only explain by saying it could have been written by Oscar Wilde. When I saw the title “Poems of Food & Drink” I thought back to that poem. I thought of when people actually say "food and drink,” usually in the context of sumptuous feasts, relished gluttony, and delight in simple pleasures. Then I skimmed through it and saw an earthy book with poems about blackberries and sections about harvests. So I expected...
Some great stuff, esp. by Sylvia Plath:"Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyesEbon in the hedges, fatWith blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers."Love the final poem from Li-Young Lee:There are days we liveas if death were nowherein the background; from joyto joy to joy; from wing to wing,from blossom to blossom toimpossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.And also a lot of mediocre stuff that was readily forgotten
I love the concept of this collection. Sadly, the content was not very good. Although, the well placed Billy Collins poem doesn't disappoint-- the inevitable guffaws.
Great, now I’m horny for blackberries.
The Hungry Ear is a collection of 158 poems about food and drink which are bound to excite your senses. My wonderful sister-in-law lent me this book and it did not disappoint!My five favorite pieces were:- Oysters by Seamus Heaney - O Cheese by Donald Hall- Coffee by Matthew Dickman - A Drinking Song by W.B. Yeats- After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost
Go buy this book. You need it in your library. This is literally the best poetry collection. You get a great collection of poets and it's all about the magic of the food we eat. Oh my gosh...I just love it.
Favorites:Ode to Gumbo (Kevin Young) (p 125)Ode to Salt (Pablo Neruda) (p 198)Meditation on a Grapefruit (Craig Arnold) (p 281)
When someone says you’ll “eat your words,” I don’t think they had poetry in mind. Yet in the new anthology The Hungry Ear, compiled and edited by Kevin Young, we are invited to gnaw on more than 100 morsels in poetic form.When it comes down to it, there is perhaps no better metaphor for poetry’s place in our lives than food—it is soul food, comfort food, the thing that reminds of us home and memory and love and longing. It is at once delicate and messy, an idea manifested in the mess of a meal o...
Great collection full of great poets! I read it and I'm still hungry for more...poetry!
I like poetry. I like books about food. Turns out I like poetry books about food. Sometimes I felt like it didn’t completely flow, but overall I really enjoyed the way this collection was organized.
A fun collection. When making my list of poems that stood out (I usually do this when reading anthologies), I came up with less than 10, which surprised me. I think this was because I wanted something in particular - if only Pablo Neruda had written a poem for every vegetable and fruit! I guess what I'm saying is, when it comes to food poetry, Neruda is so delicious, everyone else lacks flavour.Fun, nonetheless.A sample poem.FallThe wild cherries ripen, black and fat,Paradisal fruits that taste
Just what the title says: an anthology of poems on food and drink. Some were more fun than others.
A thoughtful and generous gesture towards a poetry of ordinary wonder.
I may have to buy this book. It is loaded with gems having to do specifically with food, tables, cooking, etc. A few are perfect for when I do recipes to my blog.
