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Animal Purpose: Poems
Ohio University Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-0-8214-4548-8 | Paper: 978-0-8214-2198-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3602.U75527A36 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. In another, a couple confronts the recent loss of a loved one when a stranger makes an unexpected confession in a crowded restaurant. Set in both rural and urban spaces, these poems challenge received ideas about work, gender, and place. Danger blurs into beauty and back again. Burke scours the hard edges of the world to find “fleeting softness,” which she wishes “into the world like pollen that covers everything.” |
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Animal Purpose: Poems
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Ohio University Press, 2016
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4548-8
Paper: 978-0-8214-2198-7
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4548-8
Paper: 978-0-8214-2198-7
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. In another, a couple confronts the recent loss of a loved one when a stranger makes an unexpected confession in a crowded restaurant. Set in both rural and urban spaces, these poems challenge received ideas about work, gender, and place. Danger blurs into beauty and back again. Burke scours the hard edges of the world to find “fleeting softness,” which she wishes “into the world like pollen that covers everything.”
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
