Feast
Feast by Ina Cariño, published by Alice James Books in 2023, is a poetry collection that spans 76 pages and is presented in English. This work examines the concept of home through the lens of intergenerational nourishment, exploring the connections formed within diasporic communities. The poems navigate the speaker’s experiences in both the Philippines and the United States, reflecting on how these places shape one’s understanding of belonging and identity.
Readers will find that Feast delves into themes of food and its cultural significance, using rich language and musicality to convey the complexities of the brown body’s relationship with nourishment. The collection addresses the challenges and growth experienced in a predominantly white world, while celebrating the bonds formed through shared meals and experiences. Through lush imagery, the poems invite contemplation on the nature of abundance and the ways in which language can provide sustenance, both literally and metaphorically.
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Winner of a 2022 Whiting Award in Poetry
Winner of the 2021 Alice James Award
At times located in the Philippines, at others in the United States, the speaker of these poems is curious about how home can be an alchemy from one to the other. Feast explores the intricacies of intergenerational nourishment beyond trauma, as well as the bonds and community formed when those in diaspora feed each other, both literally and metaphorically.
The language in these poems is full of musicality–another way in which abundance manifests in the book. Feast feeds its readers by employing lush sonics and imagery unafraid of being Filipino and of being Asian American.
Feast offers abundance and nourishment through language, and reaches toward a place an immigrant might call home. The poems in this collection–many of which revolve around food and its cultural significance–examine the brown body’s relationship with nourishment. Poems delve into what it means to be brown in a white world, and how that encourages (or restricts) growth.
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