A bulb is a bulb is a bulb: Emily Griffin's snappy collection lights the lights of Steinian genius, updating the prose meditations of Tender Buttons for the contemporary cook or baker or forlorn tea pot. Lazy Susan may be, but Emily's labors yield torrents of word that eddy into currents of mysterious feeling. "Let the yolks flood a yolk flood better than a flood flood better still a butter flood" the whirl of the chapbook finds new rhythms in things. You'll look at butter better. John Beer, author of Lucinda