as some women love jewels, love the jewels of life

"All the poems in this collection," Diane Wakoski writes, "describe the ongoing process of discovering beauty and acquiring an aesthetic sensibility via food"--seeing and savoring it, cooking and sharing it, reaching out to all creation and drawing it in, devouring it, lapping it up, literally becoming one with it. In the title poem, chosen by Adrienne Rich for inclusion in Best American Poetry, the poet recalls an early memory of delight in pure color--"Red stains on a clean white bib. . . crimson blood on canvas." Blood and crisp cotton as ink and paper, bread and wine as flesh and blood, the meal as art and as sacrament--this is the stuff of The Butcher's Apron, a feast for lovers of "the jewels of life."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Published: 10/01/2000
ISBN: 9781574231441
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/04/2000 pg. 67
Library Journal 02/15/2001 pg. 172
New York Times 09/09/2001 pg. 28