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Celebrate summer with ‘Ice Cream Poems’
Now that we’re heading
into July, summer’s actually
going to start acting like
summer!
To celebrate, this week
I’m taking everyone out
to the literary version of
the corner ice cream shop,
where you get to choose
your favorite fl avors, up to
125 scoops!
That’s because World
Enough Writers, an imprint
of Tillamook-based Con-
crete Wolf Press, has just
published an anthology
titled “Ice Cream Poems.”
The 125 poems presented
therein for your reading
delight are as varied as the
tubs of ice cream that entice
you from behind the glass
freezer case at Baskin-Rob-
bins.
Editor Patricia Fargnoli
has curated a selection of
sonnets, sestinas, prose
poems, free verse, and even
a list poem with the title
“Thirteen Ways to Lick an
“Ice Cream Poems”
Ed. Patricia Fargnoli
World Enough Writers
258 pp
$5
Ice Cream Cone.”
Yes, there is poetry in
savoring ice cream — it’s
part technique, and part
flair. This reader would
have been just as happy
without quite so many
mentions of tongues in
these pages, but in the
end there’s no denying the
importance of what Julene
Tripp Weaver identifies
in her poem, “Ice Cream
Cravings,” as part of the
ice cream-eating expe-
rience: “a tongue-feel, a
throat index measure.”
And it’s true: How could
one possibly avoid having
a Pavlovian response to so
many tantalizing references
to butter pecan, spumoni,
pineapple coconut, straw-
berry, licorice and chocolate
chip mint?
In this book, homage
is paid to several favor-
ite hometown ice cream
parlors, from here in the
Pacifi c Northwest (Mal-
lard’s in Bellingham,
Elevated Ice Cream Co. in
Port Townsend), to other
emporiums of chilly delight
from Akron to Paris to
Malaysia.
But not all of the poets
are ice cream snobs. Some
are perfectly willing to give
a tip of the hat to chains like
Dairy Queen and Carvel, as
well as to the Good Humor
Man.
Some of the poems in
this book associate ice
cream with sorrow or grief,
while others connect it with
love. In her poem, “Under-
standing,” Dana Beardsley
Crotwell relates how, when
their local grocery store
discontinued carrying Ti-
ramisu, her favorite flavor
of ice cream, her devoted
husband not only mailed
corporate headquarters to
demand answers, he also
drove to all of the sur-
rounding groceries to buy
up the remaining cartons
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for her. When she’d eaten
her way through the final
gallons, she realized, “I
would find another flavor /
but would definitely keep
the husband.”
There are many others in
this anthology who confess
the extent of their ice cream
cravings. Bainbridge Island
poet Carol Levin has a pair
of such poems. One is a
rejection of eating healthy
vegetables (“Palatable as
biting / into the twang / of
a broken fi ddle string”) for
the hedonistic pleasures of
ice cream. And then there’s
“Bury Me,” her hilarious-
ly brazen plea to Dreyers
to offer its peppermint
ice cream with candies
throughout the year, not just
at Christmastime. Sadly, she
was unsuccessful.
The good news is that
“Ice Cream Poems” is a
zero-calorie treat that won’t
melt away — a great way to
kick off summer!
The Bookmonger is Bar-
bara Lloyd McMichael, who
writes this weekly column
focusing on the books, au-
thors and publishers of the
Pacifi c Northwest. Contact
her at bkmonger@nwlink.
com
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