by Sara Eddy
“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, Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College