Lemon Grass and Red Curry: on cooking, cooks, art and life by Kimberly Sinclair Ghaphery
$14.00
Kim Ghaphery‘s chapbook, Lemon Grass and Red Curry: On cooking, cooks, art and life, is a rich, complex journey into the heart and soul of family through the recipes it shares across generations. Food becomes the metaphoric gateway into the passions, the bitter hurts, and the small moments of tenderness that Ghaphery faces head-on with beauty and clarity.
–Kathryn Winograd
Kimberly Sinclair Ghaphery’s Lemon Grass and Red Curry explores the work and celebration of food as it forges intergenerational bonds between women and the families and cultures they love. While her poems often focus on a personal domesticity—the ritual of preparing recipes passed down through her family—the central place of food in our lives, and the position of women at the heart of that center, resonates also in some of these poems toward earlier periods of American culture. Ghaphery’s debut poetry collection is a sensual fest—for the heart, mind, and for the palate!
–Steve Haven
Whether the subject is menus or a Fourth of July weekend when she
she is listening to a Dan Fogelberg tune or is too exhausted to
make love to her husband or is wondering if her future will be like
her mother’s past and present, Kim Ghaphery is as lucid and lyrical
as a song in this collection of insights into memory, food, family
and love. Confronting our tastes, choices and appetites, she wonders
if we are the “carnage or the desire.” By the time we read our way
from early recipes to creating spinach pies, we slowly realize that
we are both.
–Sam Hazo
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[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Lemon Grass and Red Curry: on cooking, cooks, art and life
by Kimberly Sinclair Ghaphery
$14, paper
Kimberly Sinclair Ghaphery is a freelance writer and poet. She received her MFA in creative writing from Ashland University in 2012 where she studied and wrote in genres of poetry and prose and hybrid forms. She is twice published in the West Liberty University literary magazine, The Ampersand. She is a member of Sigma Tau Delta National English Honorary and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Ghaphery received a BSN degree in Nursing from West Virginia University in 1985 after which she practiced as both a neurosurgical nurse and a psychiatric nurse. She was the nurse manager on an addiction recovery unit for five years before becoming a stay- at-home-mom. In 2007, Ghaphery decided to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming an English teacher and a writer. She received her teaching certificate from Wheeling Jesuit University in 2009 and did course work at West Liberty University. She is currently a teacher of high risk high school students as well a pioneer for the first Middle College in the State of West Virginia. A lifelong resident of the state, Ghaphery resides with her husband of 25 years, her four kids and her cat Velma in her hometown of Wheeling.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
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