Like many young-marrieds in the 1970s, Bob and Jill devoured Siddhartha and Vonnegut, appreciated Hendrix, and filled their bodies with revolutionary meals from the spiralbound pages of Moosewood Cookbook and the Diet for a Small Planet. They bought a small, shingled house, set back from the Seattle street, which they papered, painted, and flower-potted with vigor. Both got good jobs and then had a healthy, happy son. On TV, Julia Child stirred an enticing pot of life’s possibilities which captured …
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“A Night Out at the Anosmia Restaurant” & Other Poems by Philip Raisor
A Night Out at the Anosmia[*] Restaurant I accepted the offer from the pale estuary of fingers pinched on two thin slices of jicama tapped lightly with lime and a weathered rim of sweet chili powder. “Gracias,” I said in my best Ricardo Montalbán lip-sink. Friday night at our favorite Mexican franchise. “Can you taste that at all?” she asked. I sucked and replied that even where math was the official language, I was a zero. “Can you even smell it?” I …
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Feel the Deliciousness: The Purdys Braille Chocolate Box * Review by Kerry Kijewski
One adventure many blind people find themselves having at holiday gatherings is choosing a chocolate from an assorted chocolate box. Creamy, chewy, sweet or bitter – we all have our favourites, but those paper legends included in the box, they’re no good when you can’t see to read them. Enter the Purdys chocolates Braille Box… People who like to be surprised, (blind people included) maybe don’t mind so much. It’s those who like to know what to expect looking for …
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Tin House ‘Candy’ is Sweet & Twisted! A Review
In full disclosure, I submitted a story to the Tin House Candy issue in the hopes of busting into the sweet success of a major literary journal, and, as of this writing, my Submittable submission is still “in process.” Whether they’ve forgotten about it or pushed it onto consideration for another issue, I don’t know. Ok, now onto the review (im)proper… How could we at Aromatica Poetica not celebrate an issue which, although full of the tantalizing wrappings of candy …