BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Animal in the Room

    (By Meghan Kemp-Gee)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 26 MB (26,085 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 654 times
    Last checked 13 Hour ago!
    Author Meghan Kemp-Gee
    “Book Descriptions: 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. Considering PTSD and anxiety disorder as a kind of animal experience, a self-protective mechanism, these poems embody the selves we see reflected in the natural world's creatures. Deer are a way of putting fear and trauma outside yourself, wolves a way to understand the instincts of predators.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Brit Happens

    ★★★★★

    James Mullinger

    Book 1

    Real Life

    ★★★★★

    Brandon Taylor

    Book 1

    Remnants

    ★★★★★

    Céline Huyghebaert

    Book 1

    Tender Is the Night

    ★★★★★

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Book 1

    The Summer Book

    ★★★★★

    Tove Jansson

    Book 1

    Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

    ★★★★★

    Agustina Bazterrica

    Book 1

    Pure Colour

    ★★★★★

    Sheila Heti

    Book 1

    Walden

    ★★★★★

    Henry David Thoreau

    Book 1

    The Hour of the Star

    ★★★★★

    Clarice Lispector

    Book 1

    The Vaster Wilds

    ★★★★★

    Lauren Groff

    Book 1

    Study for Obedience

    ★★★★★

    Sarah Bernstein

    Book 1

    Invisible Cities

    ★★★★★

    Italo Calvino

    Book 1

    Play It As It Lays

    ★★★★★

    Joan Didion

    Book 1

    The Future

    ★★★★★

    Catherine Leroux

    Book 1

    Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

    ★★★★★

    Sarah Polley

    Book 1

    Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care

    ★★★★★

    Tracey Lindeman