Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems

by Vasiliki Katsarou (Editor), Ruth O'Toole (Editor), Ellen Foos (Editor)

EATING HER WEDDING DRESS: A COLLECTION OF CLOTHING POEMS brings together one hundred celebrated and distinctive voices, including internationally acclaimed poets such as Kim Addonizio, Margaret Atwood, Billy Collins, Elaine Equi, Jorie Graham, Maxine Kumin, Paul Muldoon, and Charles Simic, to speak about clothing as object of desire, as memento, and as metaphor for the body. Arranged into four parts, this anthology includes poems of self-presentation and identity, poems of alteration and transformation, poetry about the woven word, and poems invoking the talismanic quality of clothing.

Genres: Poetry

160 pages, Paperback

First published June 12, 2009

About the author

Raised in Lowell, Massachusetts to Greek-born parents, Katsarou has worked in film and television production in France and Greece. She wrote and directed the award-winning 35mm short film, Fruitlands 1843, about the Transcendentalist utopian community founded by Bronson Alcott. She co-edited and wrote the introduction to Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, published by Ragged Sky Press in 2009. She currently curates the Panoply Books Reading Series in Lambertville, NJ. Vasiliki Katsarou holds an MFA in filmmaking from Boston University and an A.B. in comparative literature from Harvard. She lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey with her family and a dachshund named Melville.

Reviews

[Sharon]

My poem "Zen and the Art of Knitting Socks" is included in this anthology.

[Broadsided Press -]

Amy MacLennan, who will be Broadsided in February, 2010, has a poem in this anthology. http://www.broadsidedpress.org