Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems

by Ellen Foos (Editor), Vasiliki Katsarou (Editor), Lynne Shapiro (Editor)

What's your temptation? Fifty-two poets entice you with poems about chocolate and coffee-and so much more. Poems guaranteed to melt in your mouth. Or burn it. This diverse selection of established and emerging poets stirs the pot, to brew and temper thoughts about desire, metaphysics, politics, and the afterlife into a delicious book of poetry treats. Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems includes a poem by Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, along with the work of Elaine Equi, Tony Hoagland, Naomi Shihab Nye, James Richardson, Charles Simic, Virgil Suarez, and many others."

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2016

About the author

Ellen Foos is the founder and publisher of Ragged Sky Press and was the recipient of fellowships to MacDowell and the Vermont Studio Center. She has two poetry collections, The Remaining Ingredients and Little Knitted Sister. She retired as production editor from Princeton University Press after 25 years.

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely Bundle of Chocolate and Coffee Dreams