Great Regulars: [Kevin Young's] poems play on the deep

links between food and identity, not only culturally but on the individual level: Each person's maque choux, brisket or gumbo is an expression of his own individuality and so entirely different from another's:

From "Elegy for Maque Choux":
I sure
couldn't make maque choux.
Still, no one can do

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Dear Darkness Poems

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