{"product_id":"receipt-poems-9781571314727","title":"Receipt: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Deft and insightful.\" --\u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her \"resonant and witty\" (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e) second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents--recipes and receipts--into expressions of human identity. From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. In these poems, the pie is a cultural artifact and Betty Crocker, icon of domesticity, looms large. And like a theatrical script, the recipe directs action and conjures characters: Grace Kelly at a party. Shoppers at a postapocalyptic mall. From the little black dress ($49.99 at Nordstrom) 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 proliferates--bats, deer, ocelots, and fungus--reminding the reader that not all can be assimilated, eaten, or spent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReceipt \u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Karen Leona Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51634876285109,"sku":"9781571314727","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b678b1f1-3863-40fe-8fbf-20e2e186a454.jpg?v=1756789313","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/receipt-poems-9781571314727","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}