{"product_id":"the-animal-in-the-room-9781552454602","title":"The Animal in the Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Meghan Kemp-Gee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Animals \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnimals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body -- really, anything you might want to write a poem about. Together, these poems are an evolutionary chart or a little bestiary - about deer, wolves, evolution, environmental collapse, and extinction. Each one stands alone as a contained organism, but like real animals, they share some genetic material with each other. Considering PTSD and anxiety disorder as a kind of animal experience, a self-protective mechanism, these poems embody the selves we see reflected in the natural world's creatures. Deer are a way of putting fear and trauma outside yourself, wolves a way to understand the instincts of predators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Oh the pleasure of inhabiting the mind of an animal like Meghan Kemp-Gee! Her poetry is curious, restless, uneasy, and imaginative; it is also highly disciplined, unfolds in precisely measured lines. Watch for brilliant uses of repetition -- the slipperiness of meaning, its ever-doubling character, is on full display, played out in deft linguistic twists. A deadpan delivery amplifies the oddity of what's encountered: arsenic-drunk wildcats, chlorinated orchids, the 'one painful spot of blue' in a deer's eye. I can't say strongly enough how grateful I am to have read this collection; don't miss it.\" - Sue Sinclair, author of \u003ci\u003eAlmost Beauty: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45321378660503,"sku":"9781552454602","price":1258.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781552454602.webp?v=1768582430","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-animal-in-the-room-9781552454602","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}