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Welcome to Danny Caine’s ‘Flavortown’
In the opening to
Flavortown, a new collection of poetry from the Ohio-born Danny Caine, Guy Fieri discusses the genesis of the imagined metropolis, saying, “On camera, I once said, ‘This pizza looks like a manhole cover in Flavortown.’” Fieri then goes on to detail the ways the place has since taken on a life of its own, with fans approaching him and pledging to be city council members, or the town mechanic. “It doesn’t stop,” he continues. “What would be the airline of Flavortown? Sausage Airlines?”
Throughout
Flavortown, released via the independent, Columbus-based imprint Harpoon Books, Caine spends ample time within the donkey sauce-scented burgh. He imagines its citizenship test (“How much bacon is appropriate to put on a burger? Name three foods that require a stick when deep fried?”), checks in with the town doctor (an office visit during which the poem s narrator receives a fist bump for their ample b
20 titles to guide you through National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month. And, as we celebrate an art form which gives shape and language to our experience of the world, it s worth noting that many readers still struggle to find the door, the access point to poetry.
With this in mind, accept these 20 titles most of them quite recent as a peace offering and a starting point. Not all will resonate with every reader; but there should be something here for each mood and manner of engaging.
Poems of devotion
Jericho Brown, The New Testament (2014) Following in the footsteps of James Baldwin and others, Brown s blend spiritual and sexual desire, eros and agape, until the lines are practically imperceptible. Brown s 2019 title, The Tradition, earned him a Pulitzer Prize, but don t overlook the power of this earlier work. Brown will appear in conversation with Tracy K. Smith April 23 as the culminating event of this year s Unbound Book Festival.