Vinegar and Char
Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance
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Pages: 128
Illustrations: 18 b&w linoleum prints
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
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Pub Date: 10/01/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5429-3
List Price: $20.95
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Pub Date: 10/01/2018
ISBN: 9-780-8203-5430-9
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Published in association with Southern Foodways Alliance
Published with the generous support of Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies
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Vinegar and Char
Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance
A rich collection of poetry grown and harvested from foodways studies
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Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.
The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain, Molly McCully Brown, and forty-five more. These poets represent past, current, and future conversations about what it means to be southern. Throughout the anthology, region is layered with race, class, sexuality, and other shaping identities.
With an introduction by Sandra Beasley, a thought-provoking foreword by W. Ralph Eubanks, and luminous original artwork by Julie Sola, this collection is an ideal gift. Meant to be savored slowly or devoured at once, these pages are a perfect way to spend the hour before supper, with a glass of iced tea—or the hour after, with a pour of bourbon—and a fitting celebration of the SFA’s focus and community.
—Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table, produced by American Public Media, former Eat columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and editor-at-large at Clarkson Potter
—Steven Satterfield, owner Miller Union restaurant
Kevin Young
Natasha Trethewey
Frank X Walker
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Shorlette Ammons
Michael McFee
Jake Adam York
Elisa Albo
Elizabeth Alexander
Richard Blanco
Devon Brenner
Gaylord Brewer
Jericho Brown
Molly McCully Brown
Nickole Brown
Greg Alan Brownderville
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Wo Chan
Melissa Dickson Jackson
Kelly Norman Ellis
Beth Fennelly
Nikky Finney
Vievee Francis
Diane Gilliam
Nikki Giovanni
Elton Glaser
Sean Hill
Jay Hopler
TJ Jarrett
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Ashley M. Jones
Georgia Ella Lyon
Ed Madden
Jo McDougall
Rose McLarney
Erika Meitner
Robert Morgan
Naomi Shihab Nye
Jon Pineda
Iain Haley Pollock
Lynn Powell
Artsuro Riley
Iliana Rocha
Natalie Scenters-Zepico
Brian Spears
Sheryl St. Germain
Garland Strother
Adrienne Su
Sarah Anne Loudin Thomas
Jon Tribble
Adam Vines
Caroline Randall Williams
L. Lamar Wilson
Sylvia Woods
Marianne Worthington