What to Eat What to Drink What to Leave for Poison

<p>Camille Dungy has a garden of verses that spring up with the sunshine or hide with you in the dusk. Cleaning best sums up <i>What to Eat What to Drink What to Leave for Poison</i> an amazing poetry collection when Dungy pens understanding clearly/what is fatal to the body./I only understand too late/what can be fatal to the heart. Take an ice tea and sit on the veranda or take a glass of wine and prop up in bed but whatever way you like your poetry this book is a must.</p><p>-Nikki Giovanni author of <i>The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovanni</i> and <i>Black Feeling Black Talk</i></p><p>The sorrow here is ironic and unsentimental and yet Camille Dungy's vision is all joy. Even as anti-psalms these poems are pure transcendence.</p><p>-Chris Abani author of <i>GraceLand</i> and <i>Dog Woman</i></p><p>Camille Dungy shares with us in this manuscript her sharp clear and honest ear and her unswerving commitment to the voice of life. She is a brave poet writing true poems and I salute the music and courage of her work.</p><p>-Lucille Clifton author of <i>Blessing the Boats</i> and <i>Mercy</i></p>