Our Animal - Softcover

Stricker, Meredith

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9781632430199: Our Animal

Synopsis

Our Animal hybridizes novel flaking into poetic forms like a gnat swarm, magnetic filings, or migratory flux. It’s a fierce inquiry into Othering, tracking Kafka’s life through his deep identification with animals, especially those hunted or outcast. Graphically complex with metamorphic text layers, the chapters shape-shift in relation to crows, dragonflies, a frog; there are deer, swallows, a goldfinch, humans, a hybrid Beast, wolf, Insekt, a small unidentified animal in its burrow. We are entangled in biography as biology— paradisiacal transfiguration that leaves out no being.

Our Animal is the winner of the 2014 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest, selected by Mary Jo Bang.

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About the Author

Meredith Stricker is the author of six poetry collections, including REWILD, winner of the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize; Our Animal, winner of the Omnidawn Open Book Award; Tenderness Shore, winner of the National Poetry Series Award; and anemochore, winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Prize and finalist for the Poetry Society of America Four Quartets Award. Her work involves performance, paint, drawing, graphic overlays and hybrid forms of documentary/lyric exploring a sentient world through media ranging from artist books to buildings. As an artist, designer and poet, she co-directs poetics + space, a collaborative that focuses on architecture in Big Sur, along with projects to bring together artists, writers, musicians and experimental forms.

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