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Wesleyan University Press: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition. Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the … Altro …

Wesleyan University Press: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition. Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural worldÑmutability, desire, and the flowering of thingsÑthey are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos interrupted by lyrics and errata, Meteoric Flowers mirrors the form of Erasmus Darwin's 18th-century scientific pastorals. In attending to poetry's investigative potential, Willis shifts our attention from product to process, from commodity to exchange, from inherited convention to improvisational use. The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: The Similitute of This Great Flower ¥ Sympathetic Inks ¥ Her Mossy Couch ¥ The Great Egg of Night ¥ The Steam Engine ¥ The Nettle ¥ Of the Gulf Stream ¥ A Description of the Poison Tree ¥ Grateful as Asparagus ¥ The Oldest Part of the Earth ¥ This Circumstance is Worth Further Attention ¥ Devil Bush ¥ Glittering Shafts of War ¥ Verses Omitted ¥ On the Resemblance of Some Flowers to Insects ¥ The Principal Catastrophe ¥ Irritative Fevers ¥ The Skirt of Night ¥ Of Which I Shall Have Occasion to Speak Again ¥ The Happiest of Poets ¥ Diana's Trees ¥ Her Bright Career ¥ Phosphorescent Trains ¥ Expiring Groans ¥ The Most Powerful Machine in the World ¥ Plants Possess a Voluntary Power of Motion ¥ Buds and Bulbs ¥ Verses Omitted by Mistake ¥ Pictures Connected by a Slight Festoon of Ribbons ¥ The Portland Vase ¥ Oil and Water ¥ Rosicrucian Machinery ¥ Tiptoe Lightining ¥ With New Prolific Power ¥ Viewless Floods of Heat ¥ The Ghost of Hamlet ¥ Near and More Near ¥ Hercules Conquers Achelous ¥ Departure of the Nymphs Like Northern Nations Skating on the Ice ¥ Bright O'er the Floor ¥ Solar Volcanos ¥ Errata ¥ Loud Cracks from Ice Mountains Explained ¥ Why No New Planets are Ejected from the Sun ¥ Ancient Subterranean Fires ¥ Immortal Sire ¥ Plundering Honey ¥ A Bird of Our Country ¥ One Great TIde ¥ Fuel of the Lower People ¥ In Flowers Concealed ¥ Accidental Breezes ¥ The Earth's Nucleus ¥ Primeval Islands ¥ Ferns, Mosses, Flags ¥ Note of the Text ¥ Acknowledgments. Elizabeth Willis is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. ISBN: 081956849X., Wesleyan University Press: 2007, Hardback. New. In Spices Fred Czarra explores a wide range of spice fact, fable and legend: from giant birds building cinnamon nests, to the trade routes of the ancient world, to the early modern encounters between the English, Portugese and Dutch that resulted in the first global war. In this history of spices<

ISBN: 1861894260

The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices … Altro …

The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices are often the overlooked essentials that define our greatest eating experiences. In this global history of spices, Fred Czarra tracks the path of these fundamental ingredients from the trade routes of the ancient world to the McCormick s brand s contemporary domination of the global spice market. Focusing on the five premier spices black pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and chili pepper while also relating the story of many others along the way, Czarra describes how spices have been used in cooking throughout history and how their spread has influenced regional cuisines around the world. Chili peppers, for example, migrated west from the Americas with European sailors and spread rapidly in the Philippines and then to India and the rest of Asia, where the spice quickly became essential to local cuisines. The chili pepper also traveled west from India to Hungary, where it eventually became the national spice paprika. Mixing a wide range of spice fact with fascinating spice fable such as giant birds building nests of cinnamon Czarra details how the spice trade opened up the first age of globalization, prompting a cross-cultural exchange of culinary technique and tradition. This savory spice history will enliven any dinner table conversation and give that meal an unforgettable dash of something cooking,cooking Cooking, Reaktion Books, Limited<