The Hungry Ear

Authors: Kevin Young

BOOK: The Hungry Ear

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CONTENTS

Kevin Young	Introduction
Joy Harjo	Perhaps the World Ends Here
I. Harvest Moon	Â
FIRST HARVEST	Â
Mary Oliver	August
Seamus Heaney	Blackberry-Picking
Robert Hass	Meditation at Lagunitas
Galway Kinnell	Blackberry Eating
Yusef Komunyakaa	Blackberries
Wendell Berry	Fall
Louise GlÃ¼ck	Vespers
Ruth Stone	Pokeberries
Robert Frost	After Apple-Picking
Dorianne Laux	A Short History of the Apple
Jack Gilbert	Hunger
James Applewhite	Collards
Lucille Clifton	cutting greens
GIVING THANKS	Â
Seamus Heaney	Oysters
Natasha Trethewey	Invocation, 1926
Elizabeth Bishop	The Fish
Mark Doty	A Display of Mackerel
Billy Collins	The Fish
Adrienne Su	Four Sonnets About Food
Mary Oliver	Farm Country
Kevin Young	Ode to Chicken
Harriet Maxwell Converse	The Thanksgivings
Campbell McGrath	What They Ate
Rick Moranis	My Days Are Numbered
Sharon Olds	First Thanksgiving
CHURNING & PRESERVING	Â
Elizabeth Alexander	Butter
Linton Hopkins	Ode to Butter
Ruth Stone	American Milk
Liz Waldner	Sad Verso of the Sunny________
Les Murray	The Butter Factory
Donald Hall	O Cheese
Ted Kooser	Applesauce
Kevin Young	The Preserving
Theodore Roethke	Root Cellar
Thomas Lux	Refrigerator, 1957
II. Wintering	Â
SOUP LINES & STAPLES	Â
Charles Reznikoff	Te Deum
Langston Hughes	I, Too, Sing America
William Carlos Williams	To a Poor Old Woman
Jane Kenyon	At the IGA: Franklin, New Hampshire
John Olivares Espinoza	Economics at Gemco
MartÃn Espada	The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp
Campbell McGrath	Capitalist Poem #5
Yusef Komunyakaa	Sugar
Cornelius Eady	Sherbet
Tracy K. Smith	Appetite
Gwendolyn Brooks	The Bean Eaters
Les Murray	The Broad Bean Sermon
Judith Ortiz Cofer	Beans: An Apologia for Not Loving to Cook
Sharon Olds	Bread
MEAT & POTATOES	Â
Billy Collins	Osso Bucco
George Bilgere	Corned Beef and Cabbage
Mark Strand	Pot Roast
Richard Wilbur	Potato
Jane Kenyon	Potato
Yusef Komunyakaa	Banking Potatoes
Rennie McQuilkin	The Digging
Linda Hogan	Potatoes
Seamus Heaney	from Clearances
OFFERINGS	Â
Naomi Shihab Nye	Arabic Coffee
Matthew Dickman	Coffee
Sharan Strange	Offering
Patricia Smith	When the Burning Begins
Margaret Gibson	The Onion
Stephen Dobyns	Tomatoes
Kevin Young	Ode to Gumbo
Rosanna Warren	Orchard
Donald Hall	Maple Syrup
W. D. Snodgrass	Lasting
Jane Hirshfield	Spell to Be Said After Illness
Jane Kenyon	Eating the Cookies
Charles Simic	The Soup
August Kleinzahler	Christmas in Chinatown
Sylvia Plath	Wintering
III. Spring Rain	Â
PIG OUT	Â
Kevin Young	Ode to Pork
Carol Ann Duffy	Circe
Howard Nemerov	Bacon & Eggs
Roy Blount Jr .	Song to Bacon
Catherine Bowman	1-800-Hot-Ribs
HonorÃ©e Jeffers	The Gospel of Barbecue
William Matthews	Sooey Generous
Thylias Moss	Remembering Kitchens
Roy Blount Jr .	Song to Barbecue Sauce
Jake Adam York	United States of Barbecue
DOWN THE HATCH	Â
Rumi	We have a huge barrel of wine â¦
Li Po	Waiting for Wine That Doesn't Come Something Said, Waking Drunk on a Spring Day
Tony Hoagland	Jet
Wyn Cooper	Fun
William Matthews	Another Beer
Frank O'Hara	Beer for Breakfast
W. B. Yeats	A Drinking Song
Paul Zimmer	Two Drinking Songs
James Wright	Two Hangovers
Lynn Emanuel	Frying Trout While Drunk
Philip Larkin	Party Politics
Charles Baudelaire	Be Drunk
Harryette Mullen	from Muse & Drudge
Billy Collins	Litany
Larry Levis	Picking Grapes in an Abandoned Vineyard
Adrian C. Louis	The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Nonalcohol Beer
Theodore Roethke	My Papa's Waltz
SEASONINGS	Â
Pablo Neruda	Ode to Salt
Â	Ode to the Onion
Garlic
Jane Kenyon	Fat
Roddy Lumsden	Specific Hunger
Les Murray	Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil
Craig Arnold	Hot
Jimmy Santiago Baca	Green Chile
Garrett Hongo	Yellow Light
William Matthews	Onions
Adrienne Rich	Peeling Onions
Denise Levertov	Stepping Westward
IV. Sweet Summer	Â
SHORT ORDERS	Â
Frank O'Hara	Having a Coke with You
Joe Wenderoth	from Letters to Wendy's
Campbell McGrath	Woe
Brenda Hillman	Food
Minnie Bruce Pratt	Breakfast
Lynda Hull	Night Waitress
Jack Gilbert	1953
Judith Ortiz Cofer	The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
MartÃn Espada	Coca-Cola and Coco FrÃo
Frank O'Hara	A Step Away from Them
Erin Belieu	Love Is Not an Emergency
Richard Hugo	Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
DINNER FOR TWO	Â
Amy Lowell	Interlude
Robert Frost	Putting in the Seed
Robert Hass	Poem with a Cucumber in It
Gertrude Stein	from Tender Buttons
Mary Swander	Ode to Okra
Allen Ginsberg	A Supermarket in California
Gertrude Stein	Susie Asado
Michael C. Blumenthal	Squid
Mary Oliver	Mushrooms
Sylvia Plath	Mushrooms
Jane Hirshfield	It Was Like This: You Were Happy
Â	A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls
Paul Muldoon	Holy Thursday
Edna St. Vincent Millay	Never May the Fruit Be Plucked
FORBIDDEN FRUIT	Â
William Carlos Williams	This Is Just to Say
Gary Soto	The Plum's Heart
Rita Dove	Grape Sherbet
Craig Arnold	Meditation on a Grapefruit

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