The Hungry Ear by Young, Kevin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Dedication Introduction I. Harvest Moon

FIRST HARVEST

August Blackberry-Picking Meditation at Lagunitas Blackberry Eating Blackberries Fall Vespers Pokeberries After Apple-Picking A Short History of the Apple Hunger Collards Cutting greens

GIVING THANKS

Oysters Invocation, 1926 The Fish A Display of Mackerel The Fish Four Sonnets About Food Farm Country Ode to Chicken The Thanksgivings What They Ate My Days Are Numbered First Thanksgiving

CHURNING & PRESERVING

Butter Ode to Butter American Milk Sad Verso of the Sunny________ The Butter Factory O Cheese Applesauce The Preserving Root Cellar Refrigerator, 1957

II. Wintering

SOUP LINES & STAPLES

Te Deum I, Too, Sing America To a Poor Old Woman At the IGA: Franklin, New Hampshire Economics at Gemco The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp Capitalist Poem #5 Sugar Sherbet Appetite The Bean Eaters The Broad Bean Sermon Beans: An Apologia for Not Loving to Cook Bread

MEAT & POTATOES

Osso Bucco Corned Beef and Cabbage Pot Roast Potato Potato Banking Potatoes The Digging Potatoes from Clearances

OFFERINGS

Arabic Coffee Coffee Offering When the Burning Begins The Onion Tomatoes Ode to Gumbo Orchard Maple Syrup Lasting Spell to Be Said After Illness Eating the Cookies The Soup Christmas in Chinatown Wintering

III. Spring Rain

PIG OUT

Ode to Pork Circe Bacon & Eggs Song to Bacon 1-800-Hot-Ribs The Gospel of Barbecue Sooey Generous Remembering Kitchens Song to Barbecue Sauce United States of Barbecue

DOWN THE HATCH

We have a huge barrel of wine . . . Waiting for Wine That Doesn’t Come Something Said, Waking Drunk on a Spring Day Jet Fun Another Beer Beer for Breakfast A Drinking Song Two Drinking Songs Two Hangovers Frying Trout While Drunk Party Politics Be Drunk from Muse & Drudge Litany Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Nonalcohol Beer My Papa’s Waltz

SEASONINGS

Ode to Salt Ode to the Onion Garlic Fat Specific Hunger Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil Hot Green Chile Yellow Light Onions Peeling Onions Stepping Westward

IV. Sweet Summer

SHORT ORDERS

Having a Coke with You from Letters to Wendy’s Woe Food Breakfast Night Waitress 1953 The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica Coca-Cola and Coco Frío A Step Away from Them Love Is Not an Emergency Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg

DINNER FOR TWO

Interlude Putting in the Seed Poem with a Cucumber in It from Tender Buttons Ode to Okra A Supermarket in California Susie Asado Squid Mushrooms Mushrooms It Was Like This: You Were Happy A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls Holy Thursday Never May the Fruit Be Plucked

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

This Is Just to Say The Plum’s Heart Grape Sherbet Meditation on a Grapefruit Grapefruit The Orange The Tropics in New York Pear Tree Sonnet Watermelons Strawberrying Planting Strawberries Blackberries Are Back Blackberrying Blackberries for Amelia A Meeting The Weight of Sweetness From Blossoms

Acknowledgments and Permissions A Note on the Editor By the Same Author eCopyright

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