Peaches by Adrienne Su

Inspired by a crate of peaches she bought one day, Adrienne Su's poem, Peaches, explores Asian immigrant identity through the speaker's family's practice of procuring and storing large amounts of food at a time in order to ward off hunger. Through beautiful, lyrical lines, Peaches contrasts the physical hunger that first generation immigrants might feel against the comfort and safety that their children experience while growing up.

Adrienne Su is a poet who currently directs the Creative Writing program at Dickinson College and resides in Pennsylvania. She has received numerous awards for her work including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in Best American Poetry

How has your family shown their love to you through food?