Animal

By Dorothea Lasky

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• Constellating four central topics—ghosts, colors, animals, and bees—in highly attuned prose, Dorothea Lasky explores the powers and complexities of the lyric, “metaphysical I,” which she exposes as one of the central expressions of human wildness. In deceptively simple language carrying profound insights—with a sense that is at once bold and subtle—Lasky serves as an encouraging guide through the startling, sometimes dangerous, always exhilarating landscapes of feral poetic imagination. Published in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series.

• Throughout each essay, [Lasky] draws curtains and attempts to undefine the spatiality of poems, weaving threads of liminality in order to navigate the spaces between the human and the animal, the real and dream worlds, the living and the dead.
  Samuel Binns, The Arkansas International

  Animal encourages its audience to move toward poetic change—if we ask our poetry to be different than what it was before, what could it be?
  Mariah Bosch, The Rumpus