This brilliant collection is concerned with consumption. How women absorb religious and societal mores and how in return they are consumed by them. Kennefick's themes are traditional but her poems are modern and radical. In a world that puts tremendous pressure on women to be wraith-thin and beautiful, Kennefick explores the reality of size. Here you will find red-heads, interrogation-blue eyes, sewed-up mouths, a daughter yearning for a mother's touch, the female form, the body remembering. In her coming-of-age journey, grief, sexuality, and identity are looked at through the prism of diet - cannibalism, starvation, gluttony, and an insatiable universe.
Highly recommended.