Dogged
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American poetry
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animal desire in poetry
Animal Planet-inspired poetry
animal poems
animal voices in literature
animals as poetic symbols
animals in poetry
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blending high and low culture in verse
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Character Introduced to Be Killed Off Immediately
Chartreuse Moon Holding Steady over Monster Movie City
cinematic imagery in verse
contemporary animal poetry
contemporary poetry
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Creature Feature
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Discovery of Purple
dogs in poetry
Dreaming down the Dog
ekphrastic animal poems
Entrance Music
Epithalamium
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Escape Clause
experimental nature poetry
Eyeshine
Girl in Window
Grace Note
Hercules's Dog
Hour Between Wolf and Dog
human-animal relationship in literature
intersections of language and the wild
intertextuality in contemporary poetry
Jean Valentine
Katzenmusik
Landscape with Pterodactyl
Language_English
lyric explorations of the natural world
lyric meditation on beasts
Man's Best
Maternalique
Monster's Bride
Moon Ghazals
mythology and animals in literature
Outro
Outta Body
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paintings and poetry connections
Pantoum for Laika with No Return
Picture of Woman Training Circus Lions
poems about animal consciousness
poetry about instinct and longing
poetry influenced by media culture
poetry inspired by visual art
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Riverside
Rorschachs
Satellite
Self-Portrait as Dewclaw
Shadow Play
Shh
Sleeprunner
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Some Curious End
surreal animal imagery in verse
Swallow Nest
Swamp Thing
Swan Song
Time Enough at Last
Transformation Sequence
Vesper
When the Calico
Woman's Best
women poets
Wood in Which Things Have No Name
Product details
- ISBN 9781625346421
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 142 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Located somewhere between fiction and reality, the animals of Dogged exist as both "creatures children see in their fevers" and "your one / good dream / in the night." Inhabiting a space apart from time and narrative, the space of the ever-elusive now, these haunting poems probe animal consciousness and desire, as "howls float / like crocuses— / violet / and half open / to the unknown."
Looking to a wide range of high and low visual media, from Steven Spielberg's Jaws and Animal Planet's Fatal Attractions to Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Hercules's dog discovering Tyrian purple, Stacy Gnall ponders human-animal connections and divisions, exploring those moments when human voices blend with "silent" beasts to exceed the limits of language. In Dogged, animals emerge as the highest aspiration of poetry.
Around the bend it was reckoned
we would never grow old
because there were no words for it.
I placed my arms soft
around the neck of a fawn
and she felt no alarm. Speech
is where we went wrong.
(From "The Wood in Which Things Have No Name")
Looking to a wide range of high and low visual media, from Steven Spielberg's Jaws and Animal Planet's Fatal Attractions to Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Hercules's dog discovering Tyrian purple, Stacy Gnall ponders human-animal connections and divisions, exploring those moments when human voices blend with "silent" beasts to exceed the limits of language. In Dogged, animals emerge as the highest aspiration of poetry.
Around the bend it was reckoned
we would never grow old
because there were no words for it.
I placed my arms soft
around the neck of a fawn
and she felt no alarm. Speech
is where we went wrong.
(From "The Wood in Which Things Have No Name")
