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Epicurean Ecstasy

“Epicurean Ecstasy” Review on RHINO

July 9, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

 

Book Cover Epicurean Ecstasy by Cynthia Gallaher

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Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs & Spices by Cynthia Gallaher
The Poetry Box, 2018. 96 pages.
Reviewed by Gail Goepfert for RHINO


Gallaher’s book, Epicurean Ecstasy, is a poetic smorgasbord about food, drink, herbs & spice. From the first flip of a page, the varied tones and reaches of these poems are plattered in the table of contents with titles such as, “Brown Rice Life Coaches,” “Peppermint Hello,” “Cool Beans,” “Leaf It To Raspberry,” and “Sleeping with Valerian.”

There is lush wordplay throughout the book, and a generous portion of alliteration as in the poem, “Doesn’t a Cut Apple Look Like a Pair of Lungs”—“pippin, piñata, pomona / pomme, a poem.” Playful use of simile is seen in, “Found Champagne Poem in an Unclaimed Wisconsin Corner” that opens the book:

yes I found this poem
like we found this special bottle
marked down in the corner bin
of the dusty liquor store.

We’re invited to taste-test a bit of sci-fi in “Massachusetts Cranberries:”

…are they gathered like scarlet colonies
of miniature planet Mars vanquished to earth,
set loose from ancient-armored spaceship barrels.

Read complete review HERE.

 

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“Epicurean Ecstasy” Readings in March & April

February 6, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

 

Cynthia Gallaher-Author, Epicurean Ecstasy Book Cover Epicurean Ecstasy by Cynthia Gallaher

 

Wed, March 20, 2019
at 7:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring
Cynthia Gallaher, Susanna Lang
& Jennifer Steele
Oak Park Public Library
834 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL 60301
708-383-8200

Saturday, March 23, 2019
at 1:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
& Jamie Wendt
Normal Public Library
206 W. College Ave.
Normal, IL 61761
(309) 452-1757

Saturday, March 23, 2019
at 6:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
& Jacob Saenz
Highland Park Poetry
Coffee Speaks
610 Central Avenue
Highland Park, IL

Sunday, March 31, 2019
at 12:30 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
& Wilda Morris
Brewed Awakening
19 W Quincy St
Westmont, IL 60559
(630) 852-2233

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
at 6:30 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher
Independence Branch Library
Chicago Public Library
4024 N Elston Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
(312) 744-0900

Friday, April 19, 2019
at 7:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher and five other Chicago poets
The Book Cellar
4736-38 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago IL 60625
(773)293-2665

Saturday, April 20, 2019
at 3:00 pm
“Women’s Voices” Reading
Austin-Irving Branch, Chicago Public Library
6100 W. Irving Park Rd,
Chicago, IL 60634
(312) 744-6222.

Saturday, April 27, 2019
at 5:00 pm
Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher, Marty McConnell & Carlos Cumpian
City Lit Books
2523 N. Kedzie
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 235-2523.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.


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