French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano

French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano

If you think that Turner Cassity has mellowed or slowed down since the 1998 release of his selected poems, The Destructive Element, think again. In No Second Eden Cassity is back more Swiftian than ever. Among the targets reduced to ruin are countertenors, parole boards, the French Symbolists, calendar reformers, the Yale Divinity School, and the cult of Elvis. Without turning a blind eye, he even extends a toast to Wernher von Braun.

Surprisingly, there is a poem about the Mississippi in which Cassity grew up. Unsurprisingly, it is a vision quite unlike others of that state. Its chilly and amusing precision is about as far from Southern Gothic as you can get, although elsewhere there are faint hints of a failed Good Ole Boy. Indeed, the final poems in the collection are a bit more personal than one expects of this writer.

As rigorous in form as they are in feeling, the poems of No Second Eden are not for those with preconceived ideas of poetry or its purpose. Early in Cassity's career, James Merrill described Cassity's work as an opera house in the jungle. True so far as it goes, but he might also have called it the jungle in the opera house: a glimpse at the savagery behind every fa ade.

Mireille Guiliano, a former chief executive at LVMH (Veuve Clicquot), is the high priestess of French lady wisdom (USA Today) and ambassador of France and its art of living (Le Figaro). She is the author of French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure, the #1 New York Times bestseller in the US. It has been translated into thirty-seven languages.

Mireille has appeared on theToday Show, CBS' the Early Show, NBC's Dateline, Oprah, and CNN, among many national broadcasts, and has been profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, People, Business Week, More, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine and dozens of other publications, and she is the author of French Women for All Seasons, Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire, and The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook.

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ISBN 13	9780375710513
ISBN 10	0375710515
Title	French Women Don't Get Fat
Author	Mireille Guiliano
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2007-12-26
Number of pages	304
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