Poetry and Animals
166OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID impending slaughter.^21 Like several of the “Translations,” the speaker of these poems is plural ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID167 and normalized it as an abstraction (the livestock industry) to make it seem unproblematic. By i ...
168OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID We often think of predation as the epitome of animality—ruthless, thoughtless, and amoral—and th ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID169 of that which is called ‘self,’ ” as though to signal to the turtle that it is being spoken to a ...
170OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID There are also poems that represent hybridity not as an implied over- lap of human and animal bu ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID171 Of milk, and died Staring. This is a modern version of classical myth, which represents hybrids ...
172OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID toward extinction, must inevitably and briefly have a single final survi- vor.^25 The narrator i ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID173 the original wolverine in the poem as “skunk-bear,” an animal that is not one thing but several, ...
174OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID In late winter I sometimes glimpse bits of steam coming up from some fault in the old snow and b ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID175 of both stories is the same. The poem itself gives no initial reason to judge the hunter; like t ...
176OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived? The human ha ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID177 that the category of the human is in large part defined by our language, and that we cannot esca ...
178OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID it sel f, d rive t hem onto t he shores of awa reness? The repet it ion of “ hu ma n” in the ope ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID179 “mindless dance” that includes “joy,” a far different state from the one the speaker begins the ...
180OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID The cowbells follow one another Into the distances of the afternoon. To m y r i g h t , In a fie ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID181 presence, though paradoxically it cannot be found in the words of the speaker himself. The hybri ...
182OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID two remote feet. Then it spoke, then hair grew, and eyes, and I forgot my- self—oh no, oh not (t ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID183 whole poem). The poem presents both an abstraction of the animal and a comic portrait of an indi ...
184OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID Something that was a whole story once, unparaphrased by shadow.^41 The speaker of the poem is aw ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID185 chain” and is the “sounds now of monks / copying the texts out.” X is part of a chain, tied to a ...
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