Cheese after Fukushima
Poems for a Changing Planet
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2023
Stephen F. Austin State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62288-154-3 (ISBN)
Stephen F. Austin State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62288-154-3 (ISBN)
An activist conscious dialogue, Marcia Slatkin’s Cheese After Fukushima laments an impending future occupied by melted ice caps, fishless oceans, persistence of global obesity, the absence of CO2, and a wheezing Earth suffocated under city sidewalks. These wildly inventive poems are backed with a beautiful linguistic language which brings an element of beauty to the otherwise stark descriptions of our own reality.
Cheese after Fukushima
If I were young,
my ovaries prodding possibility,
squirming newness still in my future,
I might stop. Rain brings rads
to grass, unknowing ruminants
munch, and the rest is amplification.
“Then buy skim, packed before
the Japanese release – enough
for a lifetime -- and mix your ration
daily,” says the health ‘umai.’
But I’d so mourn lessened
pleasure: that thick milk-magic
that lets enzymes ferment
and grow wildly-unctuous tastes
undreamed...
Cheese after Fukushima
If I were young,
my ovaries prodding possibility,
squirming newness still in my future,
I might stop. Rain brings rads
to grass, unknowing ruminants
munch, and the rest is amplification.
“Then buy skim, packed before
the Japanese release – enough
for a lifetime -- and mix your ration
daily,” says the health ‘umai.’
But I’d so mourn lessened
pleasure: that thick milk-magic
that lets enzymes ferment
and grow wildly-unctuous tastes
undreamed...
Marcia Slatkin is an author, photographer, and cellist. Eighteen of her one-act plays have been performed off Broadway while her fiction has won two PEN fiction prizes. She divides her time between Poitiers, France, and New York State.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2018 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 525 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-62288-154-0 / 1622881540 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-62288-154-3 / 9781622881543 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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