If there is no spoon in the salt cellar

The title, "If there is no spoon in the saltcellar," is a line from Emily Post's On Entertaining. I have subverted the original text of On Entertaining using a variety of techniques including collage, erasure, and blackout. The additional images and text are from vintage copies of Life Magazine, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Sexual Terms, and The Peterson Field Guide to Insects.

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L.I. HENLEY

L.I. Henley was born and raised in the Mojave Desert town of Joshua Tree, California. She is the author of two chapbooks, Desert with a Cabin View, and The Finding. Her second full-length collection, Starshine Road, won the 2017 Perugia Press Prize. In October, 2019, What Books Press of Santa Monica published her novella in verse, Whole Night Through. Her work has appeared in Rhino, Waxwing, Phoebe, Tupelo Quarterly, Diode, Zone 3, Tinderbox, The Superstition Review, The American Literary Review, and elsewhere. She has written two collaborative chapbooks, respectively, with Jennifer K. Sweeney and Laura Maher.