Poetry and Animals
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See, for instance, “Fear Is What Quickens Me,” “In Ohio,” “Two Hangovers,” “Two
Horses Playing in the Orchard,” “From a Bus Window,” and “Arriving in the Coun-
try Again.”
Cary Wolfe, “In the Shadow of Wittgenstein’s Lion: Language, Ethics, and the Ques-
tion of the Animal,” in Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, ed. Cary Wolfe
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 42.
Charles Bernstein, Content’s Dream: Essays, 1975–1984 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern
University, 2001), 246.
Robert Creeley, Collected Poems: 1945–1975 (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1982), 94.
Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems, 1974–1994 (Hopewell,
NJ: Ecco, 1995), 144–47.
Susan Stewart, Red Rover (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 3–5.
Charles Simic, Selected Poems, 1963–83 (New York: George Braziller, 1985), 100.
Frans De Waal, The Ape and the Sushi Master (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 3.
Simic, Selected Poems, 27, 168.
Ibid., 169.
Quoted in Lee Upton, “Structural Politics: The Prose Poetry of Russell Edson,” South
Atlantic Review 58, no. 4 (1993): 101–15.
Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems (Oberlin: Oberlin College Press, 1994), 76.
Ibid., 118.
Russell Edson, The Reason Why the Closet-Man Is Never Sad (Middletown, CT: Wes-
leyan University Press, 1977), 11.
Russell Edson, The Tormented Mirror (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2001), 21–22.
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Thomas Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” Philosophical Review 83, no. 4 (1974):
442.
John Kinsella, “Goat,” in The Best Australian Poems, 2010, ed. Robert Adamson
(Collingwood: Black, 2010), 148.