Beauty Eating Beauty

This new volume from Nancy Harris, long a leading figure in the vital New Orleans poetry scene, will delight her many established fans and, on the national stage, garner an enthusiastic new readership. Read this book for its impeccable craft, its wit, its verbal fireworks, and its poised sense of presentation but, above all, read Beauty Eating Beauty for its dazzling and nuanced variations on the theme of beauty. You may also feel free to read this volume (especially the sequence of Bear poems) for fun—if you remember that fun is at the core of profundity. - H. R. Stoneback, Author of Voices of Women Singing & other volumes