Animal husbandry today

✍ Scribed by Sharpe, Jamie

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Composing an arranged marriage of the bestial and humane, this anthology finds a balance between instinct and intellect. The featured poems clarify vision through the funhouse mirrorlogic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate and then graft in incongruous waysreflecting the human race's own absurd image. From Nancy Reagan promoting crab salad to Paris spilling into the countryside and a hammer seeking understanding through a vase, this assemblage of often disparate elements attempts the ultimate reconciliationthat of the mind with the world. Read more...

Abstract: Composing an arranged marriage of the bestial and humane, this anthology finds a balance between instinct and intellect. The featured poems clarify vision through the funhouse mirrorlogic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate and then graft in incongruous waysreflecting the human race's own absurd image. From Nancy Reagan promoting crab salad to Paris spilling into the countryside and a hammer seeking understanding through a vase, this assemblage of often disparate elements attempts the ultimate reconciliationthat of the mind with the world

✦ Subjects

Canadian poetry -- 20th century. POETRY -- Canadian. Canadian poetry.