PAULA FINN

EATING HISTORY, poems

By Paula Finn

Finishing Line Press, 2012

Eating History percolates with the ever-present past, its offerings and its burdens. These poems scrutinize the residua of colonial occupation carried in the suitcases of immigrants; the imprints of war and terrorism on children’s games; the internal lives of otherwise invisible workers; and the traces of sexual violence borne by girls into womanhood. They are poems in which pain is made bearable by the telling.