 "Poetry editors daily must sample a lot of very bland poetry recipes, so I remember with joy when I first began 'Tasting the World' of Carol Hamilton's poetry. Here, in BREAKING BREAD, BREAKING SILENCE, Ms. Hamilton has nourished us with lyrical food, spicy or delicately flavored, but never bland. These are roll-around-in-your-mouth, succulent, delicious poems to be savored again and again." Terry Hoyland, Poetry Editor, POTPOURRI. Order from hamiltoncj@earthlink.net |
Breaking Bread, Breaking SilenceWinner of the 2000 Chiron Review Poetry Chapbook Award, this book of poetry contains 48 pages of poetry related to the history, philosophy,and theology of food and how it binds our human connections. Preparing the Feast Eating our history, we come again, greatgrandmother, grandfather, the daughter, sons, and many children come, knowing the ingredients. Time swirls gently at the kitchen sink, where again the ham rind is sliced free and the fat is rubbed sugary, scored, and clove spikes pierce down, find diamond corners easily and slip in. Or the turkey is splay-legged in the sink so the sagey smelling bread, onions, buttery celery can be pressed in, pressed in. The steps so often repeated signal memories which have no pictures to them. There are ritual smells, sacrifices, roasted flesh and long oneness, each of us pressed in, fitted one to another, gathered at an ancient table. |
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