Poetry

In 1988, at the age of fifty, Diana Wakoski selected the poems in Emerald Ice from her first sixteen books of poetry. Here, returned to print at last, are all the famous (and infamous) lyrics, series, 'and narratives that established Wakoski as a mythologizer of sex and self, a fierce free-verse imagist, and "one of the most important and controversial poets in the United States today" (Contemporary Poets). About these poems, Wakoski writes: "My themes are loss, justice, truth, transformation...

A sustained meditation on personal past and the secret nature of reality. Paperback: 200 PagesProduct Dimensions: 152 x 228 mmISBN: 9780876858097 Published by Black Sparrow Press

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... crim...