Sunday, May 10, 2009

Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell

A good poem about eating, and how eating is connected to the art of wordcraft, or speaking. The alliterations--liquids, sibilants, plosives, and bilabials--seem to evoke the lusciousness of the experience of eating blackberries: /l/, /s/, /p/, /b/, and /m/.

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