Research Catalog

Title

Sustenance & desire : a food lover's anthology of sensuality & humor / edited, with paintings, by Bascove.

Publication

Boston : David R. Godine, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bascove.

Description

222 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"This is a book-lover's book about food - about taste, smell, touch, appetite - and all the pleasures of the table. It features 77 poems and prose pieces by some of the world's finest writers."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Sustenance and desire

Subjects

• Food > Literary collections
• Erotic literature

Contents

In a time of cuisine / Les Murray -- Why do you write about food? / M. F. K. Fisher -- Nani / Alberto Rios -- Wednesday 25 September 1929 / Virginia Woolf -- Cast-aluminum espresso pot / Elizabeth Macklin -- Indian takeout / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Nourishment / Rachel Hadas -- My life in cookies / Carol Weston -- A taste of antiquity / Robb Walsh -- Hot / Craig Arnold -- The onion / Wislawa Szymborska -- My mother, picking mushrooms / Vladimir Nabokov -- Grasse, 1948 / Colette -- Artichoke / Pablo Neruda -- Restaurants / Roy Blount, Jr. -- Mandarin oranges / Katha Pollitt -- Gelati fever / Calvin Trillin -- Dream song / Roy Blount, Jr. -- Making breakfast / Mary Stewart Hammond -- Cameos : July, 1925 / Rita Dove -- Aphrodisiacs / Diane Ackerman -- Creation story / Natasha Saje -- A confession / Czeslaw Milosz -- April 10 / David Lehman -- Mulberries / Jane Hirshfield -- Harlem sweeties / Langston Hughes -- Robin Robertson Gazed ... / Thomas Lynch -- Artichoke / Robin Robertson -- Sunday lemons / Derek Walcott -- A shallot / Richard Wilbur -- For and against sex / Margaret Visser -- Pears in the time of burnished gold / Mohja Kahf -- Salt / Lucille Clifton -- How to stuff a pepper / Nancy Willard -- Cabbage / Charles Simic -- Love and a cough / Robertson Davies -- Daily bread / Barbara Kingsolver -- The bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ode to Italian fruit / Barbara Hamby -- Playlet for voices / Joyce Carol Oates -- The artificial cannibal / Margaret Visser -- God's expressionist manifesto / Yan Li -- Hunger / Emily Dickinson -- Video cuisine / Maxine Kumin -- Last Christmas of the war / Primo Levi -- Potato / Richard Wilbur -- 13/16 / Sherman Alexi -- Nature and nature's God / Matthew Scully -- Production / Audre Lorde -- Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Psalm, for the wayside / Anne Caston -- Hunger / James Seay -- Taking morning tea / Matsuo Basho -- Breaking and entering with a wooden spoon / Betty Fussell -- Feast / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- La Past'asciutta con quello che c'e / George Bradley -- The cup of humanity / Kakuzo Okakura -- Rice / Mary Oliver -- On the Satin virtues of milk / Vickie Karp -- Appetite / Maxine Kumin -- Wine gums / Adrian Spratt -- Breakfast / Diane Wakoski -- Digging potatoes / Colette Inez -- Dionysus in the dining room / Rob Ackerman -- O cheese / Donald Hall -- Democratic drinking / Rod Phillips -- The fig / May Sarton -- Ode to French fries / Pablo Neruda -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- Man eating / Jane Kenyon -- The wonderful baker / Yehuda Amichai -- The quest for pie / Michael Dorris -- Simple / Molly Peacock -- My mother's pears / Stanley Kunitz -- Combray / Marcel Proust -- Arabic coffee / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Design / Billy Collins.

ISBN

1567922775 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004017233

OCLC

• ocm56033304
• SCSB-5132819

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries