Lives of the Animals takes us to that place where the boundaries between predator and prey, the observer and the observed, merge, reverse, become re-imagined. We find ourselves inside a story of death and life, witness to acts of survival so primal they seem less instinctive than passionate. And it is passion that most informs these poems: the bond between lovers, between parent and child, between humans and other animals, both wild and domestic, that populate our shared world of hunger and need.
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Robert Wrigley is the author of five collections of poetry and has received numerous awards including three Pushcart Prizes.
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What I love most of all about Wrigley's poems is the language. It's always beautiful, no matter what he writes about--a near-sighted woman's breathing on a mirror becomes "a sleepy moth of breath"; the pile of viscera left from a killed deer's cleaning reveals "the sleek, degreening pancreas." And the poet's exceptional ear and amazing eye always illuminate something deep and even profound about being a human being. Read the poem in this book called "Do You Love Me?," in which a man overhears his little girl talking to her dog. It's touching, yes, but it's also really haunting. That's the other beautiful thing about Wrigley's poems: they stay with you. You can't forget them. You don't ever want to.
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- Reign of Snakes (Poets, Penguin) by Robert Wrigley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Book of Haikus (Poets, Penguin) by Jack Kerouac in Back Matter
- Practical Gods (Poets, Penguin) by Carl Dennis in Back Matter
- Dig Safe (Poets, Penguin) by Stuart Dischell in Back Matter
- Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin) by Lawrence Raab in Back Matter
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- Generations (Poets, Penguin) by Pattiann Rogers in Back Matter
- New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 (Poets, Penguin) by Carl Dennis in Back Matter
- Ghost Girl (Poets, Penguin) by Amy Gerstler in Back Matter
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