absolute animal

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By Professor Rachel DeWoskin

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absolute animal is a collection of poems by Professor Rachel DeWoskin that explore the boundaries between human and animal behaviour. The work experiments with time and language, blending ancient translations with contemporary themes. Poetic forms include sonnet sequences about heart surgeries, examinations of animal romance, and reflections on climate change, all probing the nature of life, death, and human experience.
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This book suits readers interested in contemporary poetry that bridges science, nature, and philosophy. It will appeal to those who appreciate formal poetic structures, thoughtful explorations of mortality, and the connections between humans and the natural world.

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Poems that traverse and question the lines between human and animal behaviour.

Experimenting with time, language, and transgressing boundaries, the poems in absolute animal lean into Nabokov’s notion that precision belongs to poetry and intuition to science.

Rachel DeWoskin’s new collection navigates the chaos of societal and mortal uncertainty. Through formal poetry, DeWoskin finds sense amid disorder and unearths connections between the animal and the human, between the ancient and the contemporary, and between languages, incorporating translations from poems dating as far back as the Tang dynasty.

From sonnet sequences about heart surgeries to examinations of vole romance and climate change, absolute animal investigates and moves across boundaries and invites us to consider what holds life, what lasts, what dies, and what defines and enriches the experience of being human.

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Reviews praise absolute animal for its subtle exploration of the thin line dividing humans and other living beings, and its meditation on womanhood and mortality. The Chicago Review of Books calls it a graceful reminder of our vital connections to other life forms and the human condition. Critics highlight DeWoskin's precise, startling poetry that blends formal technique with urgent contemporary concerns.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226829050

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 113g

Pages: 80

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Professor Rachel DeWoskin

About the Author

Rachel DeWoskin is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: Banshee; Someday We Will Fly; Blind; Big Girl Small; and Repeat After Me; and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing; along with the poetry collection Two Menus, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Her essays, poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Sunday Times Magazine of London, Condé Nast Traveler, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, Agni, Ploughshares, New Delta Review, New Orleans Review, Seneca Review, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is on the core creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty in Jewish and East Asian Studies. DeWoskin also serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).