In poems from as varied women poets as Jane Kenyon, Lucille Clifton, and Anne Sexton, food emerges as a reoccurring and central metaphor in the way women live, in the pulse of the everyday, and as a vehicle for the exotic. From coffee to caviar, from potatoes to dandelions—even in hunger and anorexia—the metaphors of food have worked like yeast in the imaginations of these poets.