Full Mouth: Poems about Food by Sara Eddy, NWVS #156

“Amid the many delicious feasts contained in Full Mouth– ranging from caviar and oysters to donuts and dumplings – you’ll find the “sweet improbable globes” of oranges, and the batter of funnel cakes wiggling “across a lake of boiling oil,” expansive descriptions that insist on the transcendent experience that food can offer us. And what Eddy offers us here is a globe-trotting, memory-packed, omnivorous bounty of poems that interrogate appetite in all its forms. Through the full-mouth music of Eddy’s language, this book explores family, intimacy, what nourishes and sates, and what it truly means to break bread.”
–Matt Donovan, author of two collections of poetry – Vellum (Mariner, 2007) and the chapbook Rapture & the Big Bam (Tupelo Press, 2017) – as well as the collection of essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016). He is Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College.