What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison.What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison Camille T. Dungy dung n. 1. a. The excrement of animals. b. Manure. 2. Something foul or abhorrent. tr.v. dunged, dung·ing, dungs To fertilize (land) with manure. Red Hen Press PO Box 3537, Granada Hills, CA 91394 159709000X $15.95 www.redhen.org 818-831-0649 Award-winning African-American poet Camille T. Dungy presents What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, a collection of free-verse poetry about the vagaries of life, milestone marks, and common day-to-day observations, all narrated with a down-to-earth flavor and a unique gift for succinctly suc·cinct adj. suc·cinct·er, suc·cinct·est 1. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse: a succinct reply; a succinct style. 2. shaping emotion into the briefest of stanzas. A colorful collection that both revels Not to be confused with Revel. A revel is a type of celebration or festival, involving dancing, costumes, and general merrymaking. John Langstaff founded the 'Revels in the joys of life and mourns its tragedies. "Fear": Do not change / your soap. I will not / know you. Fresh / from the shower / you smell sharp, / like a stone. / I know this. / I call it love. // Like my knowledge / of this hillside: sage / on the steepest slope, / eucalyptus eucalyptus (y  'kəlĭp`təs): see myrtle. eucalyptus , / near the rocky caves. This is how / I find my way home. |
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