Animal Purpose : Poems
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
ISBN-10
0821421980
ISBN-13
9780821421987
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Imprint
Ohio University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 15th, 2016
Print length
88 Pages
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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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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