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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 ------------------------------------ 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 !