The Animal Library marks the debut of a remarkable poet o a poet
of the flesh, his own and that of the animals he has lived with all
his life, whether real or imaginary. Jason Camlotis father was a
furrier and he grew up in a world where, inevitably, ibaby fur gets
in your eyesi or in iyour mouth.i In dreams, the poet becomes a
whale corpse iwashed up/ on a very pale beach/ and hundreds of
flies came, / and people, / to see the tusk, / spun like coral
glass.i And as the boy grows up, images, at once curiously literal
and yet surreal o images of being devoured or skinned alive o stay
with him. The beauty of this collection is one of the mot juste, a
concreteness and precision, coupled with a superb sense of
rhythm.
o Marjorie Perloff
Critical Comment
i...Camlotis graphic exactness adds to the power of his vivid,
animated images.i
o Betty Goodwin
i...Camlotis style is rich and telling, taking us from smutty
Chicago to ancient Greece, from the 19th century Decadents to
modern biological polemics.i
o Hour, 2001
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