Pig poetry updates – November, 2012
Here are some recent additions to the Best Loved Pig Poetry section of the Arnold Ziffel Memorial Library. Poets ask us to consider the pig in the context of nursery rhymes, morals, allegory and more.
The Votaries of Circe
Porkopolis.org recently added the works of 22 more poets to its Library. Poets who have considered the zeitgeist of Circe’s world and her preference for pigs over men.
The Cook by Arcimboldo
The Cook by Italian artist and designer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (ca.1527 – 1593) has been added to the Porkopolis Museum of Art. In this work the painting of a platter of roast suckling pigs and fowls, when inverted, shows us the image of a man’s head – the cook. This work is one of Arcimboldo’s many [...]
