absolute animal

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Rachel DeWoskin, Professor Rachel DeWoskin, Rachel Dewoskin

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Poems that traverse and question the lines between human and animal behavior. Experimenting with time, language, and transgressing boundaries, the poems in absolute animal lean into Nabokov’s notion that precision belongs to poetry and intuition to science. Rachel DeWoskin’s new collection navigates the chaos of societal and mortal uncertainty. Through formal poetry, DeWoskin finds sense amid disorder and unearths connections between the animal and the human, between the ancient and the contemporary, and between languages, incorporating translations from poems dating as far back as the Tang dynasty. From sonnet sequences about heart surgeries to examinations of vole romance and climate change, absolute animal investigates and moves across boundaries and invites us to consider what holds life, what lasts, what dies, and what defines and enriches the experience of being human.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-06
Mått178 x 248 x 10 mm
Vikt113 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor80
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226829050

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Rachel DeWoskin is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: Banshee; Someday We Will Fly; Blind; Big Girl Small; and Repeat After Me; and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing; along with the poetry collection Two Menus, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Her essays, poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Sunday Times Magazine of London, Condé Nast Traveler, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, Agni, Ploughshares, New Delta Review, New Orleans Review, Seneca Review, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is on the core creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty in Jewish and East Asian Studies. DeWoskin also serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).

anthrosphereattentionthe animal questionsestina for the snake in a man-made lakeways to love and leave you social hour vole when we say they hunt unseasonable chemical peel taxidermy heathkit tv 1980my dad’s socially distant heart surgery his meds arrhythmia feel it if these days i keep falling backestrangementpoem on returning (by he zhizhang)on the eve of government exams to secretary zhang (by zhu qingyu)climbing white stork tower (by wang zhihuan) halfway (by li bai) drinking alone under the moon (by li bai) snapshots of what’s called for some girls dressing let me bevanitya surgeon sawed me open, sewed me updouble body, hot lasagna taunting the turkey vultures with love tiny staples fear chance, chicago sunset/sonnet airplane landscape, 1992, true storylandingdream view from aboveyour deathtenacityacknowledgments

"DeWoskin’s second poetry collection, absolute animal, subtly exposes the thin line separating humans from other living things, those inarguable similarities to the earth and how they lead us to long for its connection. She has a way of questioning and erasing the distance we insist is there. . . . Throughout her persistent, startling collection, the poet also fuels meaning into womanhood, and everything that’s lost or gained from being female. . . . absolute animal is a graceful reminder of why links to other living things matter and why examining the human experience is one of our only respites from what we cannot change."