Poetry and Animals
146THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY with our companion animals can and should be a spur to our growing awareness of the meaning ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY147 For an hour we are incorruptible. This is a way of becoming animal very different from that ...
148THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY can only imagine and project, and that the emotion he reads in the ani- mals is foremost an ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY149 by the “flex and reflex of claws, / gently pricking through sweater to skin,” an act that su ...
150THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY the case of a pet is also often surprising, its depth revealing finally how much the life of ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY151 insignificant before the creature dies. That is part of why one’s grief at the actual death ...
152THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY has a poem about mowing (the sonnet “Mower”), though his speaker is actually meditating on t ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY153 easier to fail than succeed.^55 The best I have read are by W. S. Merwin in his recent book ...
5 OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID T he structure of this book reflects my commitment to the idea that there is a strong correlation ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID155 crossing of seemingly natural boundaries, a process capable of reinvig- orating lines or produci ...
156OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID hybrid creatures. Grendel and Chauntecleer, whom I examined in chapter 1, are both hybrids, imag ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID157 the collage technique of sprinkling her poems with quotations from eclectic texts as her “hybrid ...
158OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID (also its Latinate “scientific” nomenclature) because of its dragon-like appearance. The actual ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID159 “serpent dove,” “butterfly or bat,” “air plant,” “alligator,” “bird-reptile,” “interchangeably m ...
160OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID serious poems about animals. The speaker of Moore’s poem “Melanch- thon” (first published as “Bl ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID161 large, inhabiting a lot of skin, and it “openly” does the things it does—it has even more of its ...
162OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID of the hybrid. While the mostly lyric poetry I examined in the previous chapter depicts the huma ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID163 animal halfway, producing a language that defamiliarizes the human as it makes the strangeness o ...
164OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID ah, eyrie-ire, aero hour, eh? O’er our ur-area (our era aye ere your raw row) we air our array, ...
OF HYBRIDITY AND THE HYBRID165 and technological marvel, and the mimicking poem thus does not have to go far to speak as this a ...
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