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A new cross-genre collection that engages historical and personal explorations of gender and self. Aligned with queer theories of temporality, fragments of memoir rub against the language of psychiatric and medical regimes at the site of a body that does not conform to a gender binary. Some Animal draws out dream-like and supernatural resonances between the literature of pathology and experiences of gender dysphoria.
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Ely Shipley's Some Animal transports bildungsroman through surreal bends in narrative where the grotesque and the beautiful crash like waves eroding shore. Here we experience the body as, rather than in, transition, laid bare before the haziness of memory and how its elision protects and frustrates. Shipley's assuredness with the flexibility of language is beyond word play--he is not playing with us. Instead, his language is tactile and smart; it bends form and genre like gender, like blood, using story itself as metaphor, as active verb, as color, as breath. "I want to see," the first piece muses, "I'm not sure what - a miracle." Some Animal delivers. Read it and grow; read it and ache; read it and rejoice, then read it again. --Samiya BashirThis remarkable, brilliant and brave poetry by Ely Shipley is an emblem for our time when US-lawmakers are making LGBTQ bodies outlaw in many states, their Christian extremism telling an entire generation they are subhuman. Float out of body with these poems then come hurtling down to land on our feet together and demand safety, equity, and a place at the table for all people. I love this book! --CA ConradThis gorgeous book begins with the image of a person climbing a fence in order to "sit with friends / beneath a tree between baseball fields" and ends in a stunning moment of intimacy as two people sit together "strok[ing] / a field of / long grass where / night blooming / flowers might // issue / from his jaw." Some Animal is not only a tremendous gift to those of us who are trans-masculine (and my god, what an "enormous relief comes with the realization / that others recognize one's experience") but for anyone who has ever felt "all alone inside / a riddle." Yes, YES may all of our animals find one another in the tender sear of this writing - disobeying borders in order to live in the love between. --TC Tolbert
About the Author
ELY SHIPLEY is the author of Boy with Flowers, winner of the Barrow Street Press book prize and the Thom Gunn Award. He teaches at Western Washington University.
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- PublisherNightboat Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1937658791
- ISBN 13 9781937658793
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages120
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