Talking Mozzarella Sticks With a Poet

Frankie Baby is still searching for that life-changing stick

Food plays a big part in Desolation (Long Day Press), the part-poetry collection, part memoir, all-confessional by the Brooklyn poet Frankie Baby, but it’s not a celebration of eating. Instead, a theme that runs throughout is one many of us have experienced where we’re taught to fear what we eat. This is bad for you, that will make you sick, eat somethi…