Consider the Oyster Rashid I. Khalidi ‘Women who speak have always

‘Women who speak have always been monstrous

New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end

in his inventive and beloved voice

desperate tenacity

serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism

Consider the Oyster Rashid I. Khalidi ‘Women who speak have alwaysM. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared la Rockefeller or au naturel and of the pearls sometimes found therein Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in the 1890's, recalls her own initiation into the "strange cold