Poetry and Animals
6INTRODUCTION Culturally, poetry occupies a shrinking proportion of the consump- tion of the written word. With the notable exc ...
INTRODUCTION7 the news from poems, men (and animals) die miserably every day for lack of what is found there: insight, meaning, ...
8INTRODUCTION as a concept, and remain relatively abstract. Poetry has the potential of engaging the physical being, the indivi ...
INTRODUCTION9 Poetry is a means of encountering, investigating, and representing animals that is especially capable of mediatin ...
10INTRODUCTION reproduction will take place.” The urge to know the world, to know the other through our senses, and to leave a ...
INTRODUCTION11 poems, as I will show, may align with any of these strategies and some- times all of them at once. My general ar ...
12INTRODUCTION animals would be unencumbered by any stylistic mediation at all, eliminating the need to ‘psych out’ and come to ...
INTRODUCTION13 particularly in poems of encounter. Broadening the scope of the other to include nonhuman animals has been a par ...
14INTRODUCTION and representing animals, a claim consistent with what Coetzee has written in other places. Costello’s argument ...
INTRODUCTION15 By the bang of blood in the brain deaf to the ear— He spins from the bars, but there’s no cage to him More than ...
16INTRODUCTION however, to read the poem and its description of the jaguar as a reveal- ing misreading of the animal. That the ...
INTRODUCTION17 “neither the being of the universe nor the being of God... [but rather] the being of one tendency in human thoug ...
18INTRODUCTION nationality, and race. The speaker of Hughes’s poem also clearly relies on preconceived notions of kind in watch ...
INTRODUCTION19 Yet taxonomists have long recognized the arbitrariness of the pat- terns they have identified and the names they ...
20INTRODUCTION We create abstractions about animals, allowing us to ignore their indi- viduality and treat them as “resources” ...
INTRODUCTION21 identity. There are no doubt interesting things to say about these cate- gories as they apply to the field of po ...
22INTRODUCTION itself, that allows the animal to signify itself or bridges a gap between observer and animal. This is a Platoni ...
INTRODUCTION23 sense of the meaning of the species, its distinctness, beauty, and place in the world. Such poems attempt to art ...
24INTRODUCTION foregrounds and privileges the poets themselves. I want to foreground and privilege the field of poems about ani ...
INTRODUCTION25 our own status as animals. Beyond the scientific uses of the category of the animal, why do we need or imagine i ...
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