A little late here, but this deserves at least one big round of
applause: Whew!
Doug
On 22-Nov-06, at 10:53 PM, Geoffrey Gatza wrote:
> It's Thanksgiving and that means we have another menu poem for you to
> enjoy!
> This year our guest of honor is John Ashbery. This is a series of poems
> based loosely around a menu of the meal I would cook for you should
> you come
> to my home for Thanksgiving. Since it's impossible for you to come, I
> offer
> these simple poems for warmth. This is free and in Adobe Acrobat PDF
> format.
> This was written during a power outage so the main course is a longish
> hand
> written piece. Also included are 3 of my most requested recipes.
> Enjoy, Geoffrey
>
>
> Thanksgiving 2006: a feast to honor John Ashbery, by Geoffrey Gatza is
> part
> of an annual thanksgiving poem series. This is the fifth installment
> in that
> series which include menu poems for:
>
> Thanksgiving 2006 Menu Poem : Guest of Honor John Ashbery
>
> direct poem link
> http://www.geoffreygatza.com/thanksgiving/
> Thanksgiving%20Dinner%202006%20pri
> nt.pdf
> http://www.geoffreygatza.com/thanksgiving/
> Thanksgiving%20Dinner%202006%20pri
> nt.pdf
>
> webpage
> http://www.blazevox.org/thanks.htm
> http://www.blazevox.org/thanks.htm
> http://www.blazevox.org/thanks.htm
>
>
>
> ---------------------- A L S O
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>
> Thanksgiving Poems : Five years of feasts! Honoring Charles Bernstein,
> Forrest Gander, Kent Johnson, Robert Creeley & John Ashbery
>
> Thanksgiving is not at all like Saturnalia. In America, the third
> Thursday
> is reserved to celebrate the giving of thanks. The thanks for all that
> we
> are, what we have, those who have graced our lives, and so on. This is
> also
> a bloody marking of the genocide performed to gain this land. One must
> never
> forget what died to feed.
>
> Innocuous enough, Thanksgiving is the most appropriate means to hold
> this
> kind of thing. That thing is an odd blending of cooking and poetry. I
> am a
> chef in my day job and how I come to understand art is through this
> first
> love. Cuisine has a natural ease to bring out many complex ideas, as
> cooking
> brings out complexities from seemingly simple foods. And a dinner
> party,
> virtual or not, [ read more ]
>
> Thanksgiving Menu Poems Past : webpage
> http://www.blazevox.org/thanks.htm
>
> Thanksgiving 2002 Charles Bernstein
> Thanksgiving 2003 Forrest Gander
> Thanksgiving 2004 Kent Johnson
> Thanksgiving 2005 Robert Creeley
>
>
> All five years in one FREE PDF
> Get it now in one file !
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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not monuments, I being
content. It is little,
but it is little enough.
John Newlove
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