God of the Kitchen New Release Barbara Ungar

Barbara Ungar

This poet excels at the ekphrasis mode

As a teacher and as a cook

One of the poems in Jon Tribble's Natural State observes that "the finest / moment of our lives may not matter at all

God of the Kitchen New Release Barbara UngarIn his stunning third collection, God of the Kitchen, poet Jon Tribble creates an unflinching account of his first job and an unsettling portrait of an Americana that exists under the ever watchful eye of Colonel Sanders. These insistent, unsentimental poems grunt and heave with the bone deep exhaustion of real work, detailing the perils of an adolescence performed in a uniform of grease and flour and sweat. At once elegy and critique, interrogation