Receipt

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Receipt by Karen Leona Anderson, Milkweed Editions
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Author: Karen Leona Anderson ISBN: 9781571319272
Publisher: Milkweed Editions Publication: April 12, 2016
Imprint: Milkweed Editions Language: English
Author: Karen Leona Anderson
ISBN: 9781571319272
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Publication: April 12, 2016
Imprint: Milkweed Editions
Language: English
In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents - recipes and receipts - into expressions of human identity. From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. Like a theatrical script, the recipe directs action and conjures characters. Grace Kelly at a party. In these poems, the pie is a cultural artifact and Betty Crocker, icon of domesticity, looms large. From the little black dress ($49.99 Nordstroms) to an epidural ($25.00 co-pay), Anderson reveals life in the twenty-first century to be equally hampered and enabled by expenditures. Amidst personal and domestic economies, wildness proliferates - bats, deer, ocelots, and fungus - reminding the reader that not all can be assimilated, eaten, or spent.

Receipt is like the lovechild of Anne Sexton and Adam Smith, illuminating the ways in which our lives are both constrained by pieces of paper, and able to slip through the crevices of cultural detritus down to the rich current of animal feeling beneath.
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In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents - recipes and receipts - into expressions of human identity. From eighteenth-century cookbooks to the Food Network, the recipe becomes a site for definition and disclosure. Like a theatrical script, the recipe directs action and conjures characters. Grace Kelly at a party. In these poems, the pie is a cultural artifact and Betty Crocker, icon of domesticity, looms large. From the little black dress ($49.99 Nordstroms) to an epidural ($25.00 co-pay), Anderson reveals life in the twenty-first century to be equally hampered and enabled by expenditures. Amidst personal and domestic economies, wildness proliferates - bats, deer, ocelots, and fungus - reminding the reader that not all can be assimilated, eaten, or spent.

Receipt is like the lovechild of Anne Sexton and Adam Smith, illuminating the ways in which our lives are both constrained by pieces of paper, and able to slip through the crevices of cultural detritus down to the rich current of animal feeling beneath.

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