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The American diner. It's a mythical place romanticized in art, literature, and film. We've all stopped at the side of the road for a quick burger or a cup of coffee. And a slice of pie or two to keep that meal in our stomach. Whenever we walk out those doors, a part of us stays seated. Indulging in the slow pace and easy conversation. Daniel S. McTaggart has eaten in many diners. He has also worked in one or two. And in many ways, he still does. This book is the culmination of his immersion in classic Americana. Some of the stories in this book are real. Some live in a dreamworld where cute waitresses are always happy to see you. So open these covers, if you will. Sit down and stay a while.
Winner of the 1997 American Book Award for Poetry and Nominated for the 1997 Poet’s Prize, The Post-Rapture Dinner is about finding hope, about confronting and overcoming cynicism by discovering a spiritually grounded in the things of this world.
// For five months these poets, meeting at their dinner table, have paused to jot down ruminations, and pondering more deeply have withdrawn to their bedroom to limn their dueling/mutual misunderstandings of the eternal questions of love, coexistence, and bodily presence, while never forgetting to eat dinner, their favorite meal. // "This collaboration opens up what the everyday means to two people in love and what every day can be when opened up to the other. We need this." -Joe Hall, author of The Devotional Poems // "...Dinner Poems forces us to ask: what is collaborative writing as a genre? Moreover, what is the bare minimum at which a genre can function and still be recognized as itself?" -Holly Melgard & Joey Yearous-Algozin, from the Introduction to Dinner Poems // This is the first book in Bon Aire Projects' "Lovers" series.
Poetry. "We get a seat in a booth. All the waitresses know Jack. None of them know me. As a matter of fact, all the cooks know Jack too. We sit. We gossip. We talk about poetry. I like thinking of Jack saying, 'I was reading ______' s poems and enjoying the hell out of them.' We eat. I always (always) get a short stack of blueberry pancakes and a side of bacon. Tea. Jack gets coffee, and sometimes bacon. Usually eggs. Some kind of bread. He makes a sandwich with biscuit, butter, bacon, and jelly. I like remembering him scooping butter from the pat onto a knife and then straight into his mouth. Sometimes we look at the art on the walls. Sometimes a fellow birdwatcher stops by the table to chat about birds with Jack. Sometimes I go into the Dot's Diner bathroom and wonder why it has two toilets, not in stalls, side by side. Then Jack reaches for the plastic bag and raises his eyebrows, smiles. 'Shall we write some poems?' Yes, we shall. We make up the rules for the writing of two poems and then trade the pads back and forth until each person's page is more or less full. Jack doesn't know this, but I usually take the west- facing side of the booth so that I can look out at the mountains while we write."--Elizabeth Robinson
These poems explore the places where the self meets the world, whether in the guise of a dying mother, another country, or a war fought against one’s wishes, in one’s own name.
Describes in poetic verse the predatory habits of a variety of animals and the foods that they eat.
Poetry. Have a seat at a table or booth in Louis Daniel Brodsky's DINE-RITE: BREAKFAST POEMS. Everyone's welcome. As Brodsky puts it, this suburban diner is an "Oasis to the white- and blue-collar and the collarless: / Contractors, carpenters, painters, and plumbers, / Insurance and sales reps, cab drivers, loafers, / Grass-roots politicians, divorce lawyers, retirees, / The entire cast of the human drama, / Under one home-cooking-spoken-here roof." And overlording this melting pot is its owner, a corpulent, self-anointed Baptist minister, whose unique brand of evangelism permeates Dine-Rite as thoroughly as the greasy, smoky air that wafts from the kitchen. If you're hungry for poetry that both satisfies and leaves you wanting more, then you've come to the right place. Dig in!
Breakfast for Dinner is a trail of poems about travel, roadside shrines, abandoned hotels, and broken promises. Mix each in a big pot and you got dinner served with a smile.
Last Gasp proud to bring back this early. Boat classic Diane di Prima has long been recognized as on of the strongest voice of her generation, and one of the few women wh was able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of lowlife Bohemians and revolutionary mentalities shatter the conservative myths of the Fifties and lay bare the emerging sexual experimentation that would shape the Sixties.