lemon, egg, bread The Blue Split Compartments where language is both god’s

where language is both god’s first gift to humankind and the cadaver in which the sacred father decays with his mortal creation

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His poetry has appeared in Chicago Review

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lemon, egg, bread The Blue Split Compartments where language is both god’sLaura Elliott lemon, egg, bread is a striking first collection; a series of poems which read as an attempt to speed write the still life image. Drawn out of a process of meditation on and intervention within various still life compositions, including works by Laura Letinsky, the collection explores practices of re articulation by way of the feminist gaze and the gut. These are direct, imagistic poems formed purely from appetite; a compendium of