Natural Wine

Author: Jo Barchi

Publisher: Spiral Editions (2025)

“To say that Jo Barchi’s Natural Wine is one of the horniest books ever written about going to work would be an understatement. The more I lived with these poems—their intelligence, wit and music—the more I savored the grim underbelly of the scene proffered by their coy, outrageous, brilliant server.” —Brandon Brown

"In Natural Wine, Jo Barchi takes the unnatural language that occupies the worker's ears and mouths and spits it back out. In this poem, a voice carries across a restaurant, drowning out the bad tippers, the menus recited by heart, the kitchen jargon, and other profitable falsehoods to insist, stubborn and sore-footed, on desire." —Rainer Diana Hamilton