Bestiary (Paperback, New)

“The poems in Elise Paschen’s Bestiary explore domestic preoccupations set against the backdrop of the wild-heartedness, real and imagined, of the animal world,� praises the poet Jason Shinder. In this modern-day Bestiary, or “Book of Beasts,� the line between animal and human is thinly-drawn – the daughter of a Celtic king, through love, is transformed from beast to human; lovers take flight as moon and owl; manatees transform, before the explorers’ eyes, into mermaids. This dynamic runs throughout the collection: taking flight, hovering between air and earth, plunging, and then resurfacing from water. The poems create a constant engagement between what tethers us to our daily lives – marriage, motherhood, raising a family, the loss of parents in old age – and the desire for other worlds. Exploring notions of transformation, these poems cross thresholds between animal and human, between death and life. Award-winning poet, Elise Paschen, creates in her third and most complex poetry collection, work which is elegant and passionate, preternaturally still and reckless all at once. Paschen displays a variety of form and nuance – from ghazals to long-lined free verse poems. Writing out of a distinct Western literary tradition, but tapping into her Native American (Osage) roots, Paschen celebrates the mythic, the unusual, the magical glimpsed in the everyday.

General

Imprint:	Red Hen Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	April 2009
Authors:	Elise Paschen
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-59709-131-2
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-59709-131-6
Barcode:	9781597091312

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