Poetry and Animals
106POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE Without a Button—I c’d vouch— Unto a Velvet Limb— You’ll know Her—by Her Vest— Tight fitting—Orange—Br ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE107 the poem might be thought of as a children’s poem—a primer for understanding birds at the level of spe ...
108POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE observations of animals were often from a distance—through the cul- tural technology of books, picture ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE109 or used small eagles. They looked on as theirs, impalas and onigers...^42 The jerboa enters the poem’s ...
110POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE fish-shaped and silvered to steel by the force of the large desert moon. The long and careful descript ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE111 creature is reflected in the sheer amount of detailed description she pro- vides in the poem’s first s ...
112POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE at every step. Consistent with the formula—warm blood, no gills, two pairs of hands and a few hairs—th ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE113 of the idea that animals can embody “bounty” and appetite, as well as signaling the dubious progress o ...
114POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE the poet through his encounters with them, and the poems are a mark the poet leaves of the animals, hi ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE115 sunrise. As is always the case with bird-watching, we recognize an indi- vidual bird as belonging to a ...
116POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE His meaning has no margin. He shudders To the tips of his tail-tines. Momentarily, his lit scrap is a ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE117 Ammons, Margaret Atwood, John Kinsella, Don Mckay, W. S. Merwin, Mary Oliver, Pattianne Rogers, Kay Ry ...
118POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE of it. One thing that seems real about the existence of a species is that its members recognize each o ...
4 THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY I n his poem “On the Present Slaughter of Feral Animals,” the Aus- tralian poet Les Murray rum ...
120THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY sense that because Australians and humanity in general have drasti- cally altered the ecosys ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY121 or fish than about the life of an large mammal, and most pet owners feel very differently ab ...
122THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY Dick is symbolic not of the individual but of the “anomalous,” which is “neither an individu ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY123 individual deaths. Packs themselves are comprised of many single bodies.^6 On the one hand, ...
124THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY end of our meditations about the human-animal boundary, or about the animal itself, we need ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY125 Historically, probably the first poem to dwell on an individual ani- mal is Christopher Smar ...
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