{"product_id":"9780807157633","title":"Kitchen Heat: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eKitchen Heat records in woman's language the charm and bite of domestic life. Ava Leavell Haymon's poems form a collection of Household Tales, unswerving and unsentimental, serving up the strenuous intimacies, children, meals, pets, roused memories, outrages, and solaces of marriage and family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the poems are comic, such as \"Conjugal Love Poem,\" about a wife who resists giving her husband the pity he seeks when complaining about a cold. Others find myth and fairy tale lived out in contemporary setting, with ironic result. Others rename the cast of characters: husband and wife become rhinoceros and ox; a carpool driver, the ominous figure Denmother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elderly female is Old Grandmother, who creates time and granddaughters from oyster stew. The humidity of Deep South summers and steam from Louisiana recipes contribute to a simmering language, out of which people and images emerge and into which they dissolve again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenmother went to college in the 60s,\u003cbr\u003ecould pin your ears back at a cocktail party.\u003cbr\u003eHer laugh had an edge to it,\u003cbr\u003eand her yard was always cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe grew twisted herbs in the flower beds,\u003cbr\u003ehid them like weeks among dumpy marigolds.\u003cbr\u003eThe wolfsbane killed the pansies\u003cbr\u003ebefore they bloomed much.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe'd look at you real straight and talk\u003cbr\u003eabout nuclear power plants or abortion. At home\u003cbr\u003ealone she boiled red potatoes all night\u003cbr\u003eto make the primitive starch that holds up the clouds.\u003cbr\u003e -- \"Denmother's Conversation\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128993497328,"sku":"9780807157633","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807157633_p0.jpg?v=1763725879","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807157633","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}