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I've never read Nancy Willard at all. I'll have to check her out. Hope Anita Smith's THE WAY A DOOR CLOSES was good but I LOVE Sonya Sones.
Surprise me - I need to broaden my mind. And thanks for sharing.
Do look for Willard. Here's a poem of hers I had already typed for someone else:
How to Stuff a Pepper With Rice by Nancy Willard
Now, said the cook, I will teach you how to stuff a pepper with rice.
Take your pepper green, and gently, for peppers are shy. No matter which side you approach, it is always the backside. Perched on green buttocks, the pepper sleeps. In its silk tights, it dreams of somersaults and parsley, of the days when the sexes were one.
Slash open the sleeve as if you were cutting a paper lantern, and enter a moon, spilled like a melon, a fever of pearls, a conversation of glaciers. It is a temple built to the worship of morning light.
I have sat under the great globe of seeds on the roof of that chamber, too dazzled to gather the taste I came for. I have taken the pepper in hand, smooth and blind, a runt in the rich evolution of roses and ferns. You say I have not yet taught you
to stuff a pepper? Cooking takes time.
Next time we'll consider the rice.
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Knopf recently brought out her collected poetry, SWIMMING LESSONS.
And Harcourt published in trade paperback TELLING TIME, her book of essays on writing and storytelling, which is really excellent.
There is also A NANCY WILLARD READER from University of New England/Breadloaf, which has essays, stories, and poems by her, a miscellany that's nto a bad starter course on Willard. :-)
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Date: 2005-09-29 03:02 am (UTC)stb95123@yahoo.com
I've never read Nancy Willard at all. I'll have to check her out. Hope Anita Smith's THE WAY A DOOR CLOSES was good but I LOVE Sonya Sones.
Surprise me - I need to broaden my mind. And thanks for sharing.
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Date: 2005-09-29 12:12 pm (UTC)How to Stuff a Pepper With Rice
by Nancy Willard
Now, said the cook, I will teach you
how to stuff a pepper with rice.
Take your pepper green, and gently,
for peppers are shy. No matter which side
you approach, it is always the backside.
Perched on green buttocks, the pepper sleeps.
In its silk tights, it dreams
of somersaults and parsley,
of the days when the sexes were one.
Slash open the sleeve
as if you were cutting a paper lantern,
and enter a moon, spilled like a melon,
a fever of pearls,
a conversation of glaciers.
It is a temple built to the worship
of morning light.
I have sat under the great globe
of seeds on the roof of that chamber,
too dazzled to gather the taste I came for.
I have taken the pepper in hand,
smooth and blind, a runt in the rich
evolution of roses and ferns.
You say I have not yet taught you
to stuff a pepper?
Cooking takes time.
Next time we'll consider the rice.
###
Knopf recently brought out her collected poetry, SWIMMING LESSONS.
And Harcourt published in trade paperback TELLING TIME, her book of essays on writing and storytelling, which is really excellent.
There is also A NANCY WILLARD READER from University of New England/Breadloaf, which has essays, stories, and poems by her, a miscellany that's nto a bad starter course on Willard. :-)