Existential Bread (Paperback)

Jim Franks

ISBN 10: 1937112438 / ISBN 13: 9781937112431

Published by Drag City, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Jim Franks is not a professional baker, because there are no such things as professional bakers. He is also not your father and never will be, nor is this a cookbook full of stories and recipes. Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who's written a love story about bread, which is to say he's written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring. Through humor, history, relentless curiosity, and refreshingly unsentimental poetry. Existential Bread teaches there are many ways to bake a loaf as there are many ways to live a life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Existential Bread (Paperback)
• Publisher: Drag City
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1937112438
• ISBN 13: 9781937112431
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who’ s written a love story about bread, which is to say he’ s written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring. Through humor, history, relentless curiosity, and refreshingly unsentimental poetry, Existential Bread teaches there are many ways to bake a loaf, just as there are many ways to live a life.

About the Author

Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who’ s written a love story about bread, which is to say he’ s written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring.