![]() And yet, in its particularity, its informality, Chasing Utopia continually reminds us of what's important: the connections we develop with those we love. This is not major Giovanni only occasionally (as in a poem written to commemorate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln) does she invoke a world more expansive than the one we make at home. ![]() I used to watch / my mother cook, she writes, she would invariably sigh / a little sigh then light / a cigarette // since no one smokes / anymore Beans / have not tasted as good // I have her sigh / and stack of spices. ![]() At its center is the notion of family - Giovanni's parents, her aunts, her son - an ideal of domesticity. ![]() Chasing Utopia is intimate, personal, what we might call a commonplace book, blending memories, reflections, even recipes. ![]()
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