{"product_id":"the-animal-in-the-room-9781552454602","title":"The Animal in the Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnimals 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. \u003cspan\u003eConsidering 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Oh the pleasure of inhabiting the mind of an animal like Meghan Kemp-Gee! Her poetry is curious, restless, uneasy, and imaginative; it is also highly disciplined, unfolds in precisely measured lines. Watch for brilliant uses of repetition — the slipperiness of meaning, its ever-doubling character, is on full display, played out in deft linguistic twists. A deadpan delivery amplifies the oddity of what’s encountered: arsenic-drunk wildcats, chlorinated orchids, the 'one painful spot of blue' in a deer’s eye. I can’t say strongly enough how grateful I am to have read this collection; don’t miss it.\" – Sue Sinclair, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlmost Beauty: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meghan Kemp-Gee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308087685371,"sku":"9781552454602","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781552454602.jpg?v=1772484740","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-animal-in-the-room-9781552454602","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}