The animal in the room /
Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes, bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact and history. Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body, really, anything you might want to write a poem about. Together, these poems are an evolutionary chart or a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
Coach House Books,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes, bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact and history. Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body, really, anything you might want to write a poem about. Together, these poems are an evolutionary chart or a little bestiary, about deer, wolves, evolution, environmental collapse and extinction. Each one stands alone as a contained organism, but like real animals, they share some genetic material with each other. Deer are a way of putting fear and trauma outside yourself, a wolf character whose main purpose was not understanding anything people feel. |
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| Physical Description: | 77 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781552454602 1552454606 |