Night Animals - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Yusef Komunyakaa, Rachel Bliss (Illustrator)Series:Quarternote ChapbookPublish date:2020-06-02Pages:32
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarabande BooksISBN-13:9781946448583ISBN-10:1946448583UPC:9781946448583Book Category:Poetry, ArtBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Mixed MediaBook Topic:African American & Black, Plants & AnimalsSize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC4M5NHEBR
The poems in Night Animals, by Yusef Komunyakaa, climb so deeply into the being of various beasts, from cricket to leopard to snowy owl, that we read them with an uncanny shiver of recognition. Without ever fully abandoning his human skin, Komunyakaa inhabits both the outer and inner lives of these creatures. The images are a brilliant match for the poems, each of Rachel Bliss's surreal animals populate a realm somewhere between our two species--birds with teeth, men with antlers, a duck wearing suspenders. Both image and word are dense and dark, intensely focused around a kind of hunger. The poet has been startling us with his rich, disturbing, and important poems for many years. Night Animals extends Yusef Komunyakaa's remarkable oeuvre.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarabande BooksISBN-13:9781946448583ISBN-10:1946448583UPC:9781946448583Book Category:Poetry, ArtBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Mixed MediaBook Topic:African American & Black, Plants & AnimalsSize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC4M5NHEBR
Yusef Komunyakaa's books of poetry include Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize, Talking Dirty to the Gods, Warhorses, Emperor of Water Clocks, and Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth (forthcoming from FSG in 2020). His honors include the William Faulkner Prize (Universit? Rennes, France), the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the 2011 Wallace Stevens Award. His plays, performance art and libretti have been performed internationally and include Saturnalia, Wakonda's Dream, Testimony, and Gilgamesh. He teaches at New York University. Rachel Bliss is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work depicts a visual innuendo that is as surreal as the environment she is a part of. Since 1991, Bliss has exhibited in galleries and museums including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, James A. Michener Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Coombs Contemporary Gallery in London and the Alternative Museum in New York. Bliss' art has been commissioned by and featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Village Voice, Penguin Books, and The New Yorker. She is the founder and curator of The Drawing Room in Philadelphia.
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