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Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, most recently *Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems, *recipient of the inaugural Patricia Cannon Willis Prize from Yale Library. His edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. Former host of The Slowdown podcast, from American Public Media, he is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, John S. Guggenheim Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He serves as poetry editor of The Harvard Review. Major Jackson is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts. 
Michael Ruhlman is the author of The Elements of Cooking, The Soul of a Chef, and The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America, among others.

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An anthology of contemporary poems and soup recipes to nourish us, comfort us, and bind us together-gathered by award-winning poet Major Jackson.

Poetry and soup both offer sustenance and comfort. And yet, the secret ingredient to every great meal is not what we see on the plate, but who we see around the table. This anthology features poems by today's best poets that embody the idea of nourishment, comfort, and connection across cultures and generations. Among the poems are 24 of Major's own favorite soup recipes: from apple-parsnip to gumbo, borscht to bouillabaisse, there's something to tickle and warm all tastebuds.

Sprinkled throughout are side-dishes of soup-inspired stories by award-winning writers and chefs, including Ann Patchett and chef Jim Huntington of Maple Soul. Other contributors include Garrett Hongo, Jane Hirshfield, Pablo Neruda, Natasha Tretheway, Paul Muldoon, Rita Dove, Ilya Kaminsky, Kwame Dawes, Gary Snyder, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Kevin Young, and more.

Inhalt

When Food Is More than Food, foreword by Michael Ruhlman
Our Earthly Abundance, by Major Jackson

GOING HOME
Ann Patchett, Year of Soup

Lisa Coffman, Everybody Made Soups
Dorianne Laux, On the Back Porch
Brendan Galvin, Kale Soup
Garrett Hongo, Miso Soup
Asa Drake, Toyo
Tyree Daye, Recipe
Matthew Dickman, Pea Green
Barbara Quick, Conjuring Nana
Marilyn Chin, Turtle Soup
Stephanie Niu, The Magic of Eating Garbage
Jenny Wong, Fish Soup
Janet MacFayden, After everything we sit down and eat
Brenda Hillman, Knit purl knit purl purl purl knit. From The Repetitions

Recipes
Apple-Parsnip Soup
Caldo Verde
Miso Soup with Halibut
Chicken Noodle Soup
Mediterranean Fish Stew

SHARING A BOWL
Pádraig Ó Tuama, Pádraig's Irritating - But Hopefully Delicious - Soup Recipe (avec Poetry Recommendations)

Pádraig Ó Tuama, Do You Believe in God?
Vievee Francis, Beast and Beauty
Divya Victor, Laksa at Lau Pa Sat, Singapore, 1999
Paul Muldoon, Holy Thursday
David Lehman, Lockdown
Leah Huizar, Hominy
Robert Hass, from Songs to Survive the Summer
Lynda V.E. Crawford, Civilised Okra
Marte Stuart, Divorced, Soup and Dessert

Recipes
Tomato Basil Soup
Laksa
Black Bean Soup
French Onion Soup
Harira

HEALING AGENTS
Jeff Gordinier, Sizzling Rice Soup

Rita Dove, Soup
Bill Holm, Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe
Didi Jackson, Ribollita
Kevin Young, Ode to Gumbo
Jane Hirshfield, Da Capo
Kate Daniels, Soup in a Hard Time
Mary Ruefle, Blood Soup
Julia Kasdorf, The Body Remembers
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios, Communion
Ellen Bass, Courage, 1983
Joseph Millar, Sunday Night

Recipes
Butternut Squash Soup
Ribollita
Gumbo
Soup au Pistou
Borscht

MAGIC KETTLE
Chard deNiord, Soup Kitchen at The Catholic Worker Farm

Chard deNiord, Tivoli Soup
Shenai Chan, soup poem #4392
Amanda Maeglin, Self Portrait as Soup
Ihlwha Choi, Ten Islands
Natasha Trethewey, Invocation, 1926
Alberto Ríos, Thinking Soup
Bruce Smith, Devotion: Soup
Kwame Dawes, Soup
Erin Elizabeth Smith, Like the Wolf

Recipes
Dumpling Soup
Cocido Madrileño
Mulligatawny
She-Crab Soup

THE GOODNESS
Chef Jim Huntington, Periwinkle Stew

Mary Oliver, Messenger
Robert Creeley, Soup
Pablo Neruda, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden, Ode to Conger Chowder
Mark Jarman, In the Soup
Gary Snyder, How to Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert: Recipe for Locke & Drum
Barbara Hamby, Ode to Soup
Ilya Kaminsky, from Musica Humana
Bruce Willard, Words
Franny Choi, Strawberry Moon
Tess Taylor, Stocks
Naomi Shihab Nye, The Traveling Onion
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fugu Soup Blues
Joy Harjo, Perhaps the World Ends Here

Recipes
New England Clam Chowder
Beef Stew
Albóndigas
Chilled Strawberry Soup
Bouillabaisse

How to Host a Soup Party
Soup & Poetry Pairings
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Credits