The More Extravagant Feast
By Leah Naomi Green. Graywolf Press, 2020.
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets (selected by Li-Young Lee), The More Extravagant Feast focuses on the trophic exchanges of a human body with the world via pregnancy, motherhood, and interconnection—the acts of making and sustaining other bodies from one’s own, and one’s own from the larger world. Leah Naomi Green writes from attentiveness to the vast availability and capacity of the weedy, fecund earth and from her own human place within more-than-human life, death, and birth. Lyrically and ...