THE SHENANIGANS OF DESIRE: LOVE'S PLAY BOOK, A COOK BOOK FOR FEASTING ON YOUR LIFE
THE POETRY SLOW DOWNKRXA 540AMDr. Barbara MossbergProduced by Sara HughesFebruary 9, 2014© Barbara Mossberg 2014THE SHENANIGANS OF DESIRE: LOVE'S PLAY BOOK, A COOK BOOK FOR FEASTING ON YOUR LIFE(IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE PLAY ON, SO PLAY ON LOVE OF FOOD, IF LOVE OF FOOD BE A LOVE OF LANGUAGE ABOUT DESIRE, IF POETRY BE A LOVE OF WORDS ON FOOD AND LOVE) February 9 and 16!Poems today to whet your appetite for Valentine's pre and post:Parts One:Two suspenseful narratives contributed by your faithful host, both on food, in time for your Valentine's Day dinner for your squeeze, and these are posted for your cooking pleasure at tupelopress.wordpress.com/30-30project, in which five poets sidle up to the plate to dish out a poem a day for thirty days, the entire month of February, and I'm just sayin o Poetry Slow Down, that the poems of my companions on this journey, they are sensually serious poems to arouse your spirits, a jostly, jolly, rowdy, truly Chaucerian company, so while you are checking out how to cook if not a wolf, a la MFK Fisher, at least how to cook for a sweet wolf, or a frolicking lamb, whomever is your companion on this journey of ours, as we approach Valentine's Day . . . and food of love, love of food, love food, . . . .a little Poe, Li Po, Li Young-Lee, poetryParts Two:Poems of love, by Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings, Tony Hoagland, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Mark Doty, Rumi, Maxine KuminParts Three:Fierce poems of love, Tory Dent, Christina Rosetti, Walt Whitman, Martin Luther King, Shelley, Naomi Shahib Nye, I have one for my squeeze, Brad Leithauser, Joy Harjo, Robert Bly, Muriel Rukeyser, David Lehman, oh, and Emily Dickinson, concluding with A.A. Milne.So hear! Hear! It for THE POETRY SLOW DOWNKRXA 540AMDr. Barbara MossbergProduced by Sara HughesFebruary 9, 2014When: Noon-1 pm PST, live on California's Central Coast, and livestreamed at KRXA 540AM, and podcast at BarbaraMossberg.com© Barbara Mossberg 2014Join me, I've got my apron on, and waiting for you . . . with Moscato over ice. . . .Thank you for listening, and yours truly,Barbara