Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Great Regulars: The ceremonious gathering to eat

sumptuous food is a basic ritual, involving memory and family or communal ties. The holiday of Thanksgiving in that sense is primal, as well as American. Mark Strand's New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food's deep meanings, appropriate to the holiday, though the dish is not turkey:

Pot Roast

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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