Culinary Poems / Poemas Cocinados by Ana Pascual Zurriaga

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In Culinary Poems / Poema Cucinado by Ana Pascual Zurriaga is a Spanish-English book of poems. Facing pages (left page Spanish, right page, English) allows for comparative reading of the poems. Ms. Zurriaga embarks on her own existential journey as a poet and as a woman poet: through the word and through her pictorial art (her watercolors and socarrats). The materiality of the plastic arts reminds us of the natural elements, organic and inorganic, that are part of our humanity…These poems, brief and seemingly simple, refer to the most profound and complex aspect of human beings: their spirit and their carnality. In short, her well-constructed, culinary poems, nurture like a good stew made of words, metaphors, and images, selected with love.