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This month, we welcome Angela Narciso Torres, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, and Jehanne Dubrow.Ĭlick here to RSVP. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required to attend. A poetic homage to the power and mysteries of taste.Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets and hosted by poet Mildred Barya. And also, and most importantly, to ourselves. Albert Sonnenfeld, translator of Food: A Culinary History In the form of a very elegantly written essay, Dubrow argues that taste is the main form of access to the world and others. It is to be sampled as a cornucopia of 'small bites.' A viaticum of sorts, and a damn good read. In Taste, Dubrow's range of allusions, from visual arts to poetry, are movingly conveyed. David Lazar, author of Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age This is a book I wish I had written. While other food-memory books sometimes threaten an overindulgence of richness, in Taste, Dubrow's sharp wit and self-awareness serve as the perfect digestivo. Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers Jehanne Dubrow is an intellectual sensualist, a writer of sometimes lyrical, sometimes directly colloquial, and always critical sensibility, her mnemonic taste buds open to memory's compromised dishes, its condiments and aftertaste.

She writes: 'We acquire tastes just as we acquire knowledge: with time and patience, a belief that the pursuit can lead to something delicious'-and something delicious describes this trove of riches perfectly. Chris Manno * Lone Star Literary Life * If 'tasting may begin with sight' (and what a synaesthetic provocation that is!) Dubrow goes on to show this strangely elusive sense manifesting in every form of perception-mind, body, and soul. * Publishers Weekly * Captivating, engrossing, and thought-provoking essays. Dubrow's musings are at once sober and evocative, and she succeeds admirably in getting 'around the ungainliness of words by finding metaphors for taste.' These thoughtful meditations offer lots to savor.

Poet Dubrow (Wild Kingdom) considers the five basic tastes-sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami-in this amusing collection of essays.

Dots & Dashes by Jehanne Dubrow