- 90 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Poems about consumption: "Deft and insightful... resonant and witty." ā The Washington Post In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documentsārecipes and receiptsāinto expressions of human identity. From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. Like a theatrical script, the recipe directs action and conjures characters (Grace Kelly at a party). In these poems, the pie is a cultural artifact and Betty Crocker, icon of domesticity, looms large. From the little black dress ($49.99 Nordstroms) to an epidural ($25.00 co-pay), Anderson reveals life in the twenty-first century to be equally hampered and enabled by expenditures. Amidst personal and domestic economies, wildness proliferatesābats, deer, ocelots, and fungusāreminding the reader that not all can be assimilated, eaten, or spent. Receipt is like the lovechild of Anne Sexton and Adam Smith, illuminating the ways in which our lives are both constrained by pieces of paper, and able to slip through the crevices of cultural detritus down to the rich current of animal feeling beneath. "Anderson's poems prioritize wordplay, assonance, and alliteration, which lead her to surprising turns of phrase." ā Publishers Weekly "Anderson doesn't miss a beat as she traces our consumerismsāeconomic, sexual, spiritual, and moreāwith irony, wit, sadness and more than a little humor. Receipt is, quite simply, a terrific book." āLinda Bierds
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Recipe
- Receipt
- Re
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author