Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 31 August 2015
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Bird Eating Bird - Poems
A winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU Prize as selected by Yusef Komunyakaa (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Kristin's work perpetuates NPS's tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets. Her poems are playful and serious all at once. They explore the richness of her cultural and linguistic heritage, which spans the globe from Mexico to the Philippines. They defend with vigor and humor the color purple. And they analyze the insecurities of the letter 'h' -- among other things.
Over the last forty years, scenes that prominently feature acts of preparing and eating food have filled the pages of novels and memoirs written by American immigrants and their descendants because these writers understand that eating is more than a purely biological function but, instead, works to define who we are in the United States and abroad. Are We What We Eat? critically analyzes eight of these pieces of ethnic American literature, which demonstrate the important role that cooking and eating play in the process of identity formation.
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Once, a long time ago, there was a king whose wisdom was known throughout all the land. Nothing could be hidden from him. It seemed as if news of the most secret things came to him through the air. He had one strange custom. Every day when he was alone, a trusted servant brought him a magic dish. One day when the servant took away the magic dish, he tasted the left-over food on the dish. Eating the food gave the servant the power to understand animals. Follow the servant as he uses this new-found power to win the hand of a beautiful princess.
