Description
Poetry. This song cycle is a raw and mutating cry from within an ecological surround undergoing massive upheaval and duress. REMEMBERING ANIMALS chronicles the animal in all the complexity of such a categorization, revealing the ways in which bodies are marked and evaluated, used as resource, violated and occluded from history. It is a botched text!it is problematic and scarred. It hurts and registers the hurt. There is no comfort zone. These poems contort out of the marked position of human to bring an intimate awareness of our interrelational vibrancy.
"Iijima's eco-provocations have the lightness and gravitas of an improbably reconsecrated world glimpsed at its hectic, interrogatively driven conception. On the edge of loss, words have taken on direct agency."—Joan Retallack
Author Bio
Brenda Iijima is the author of six full-length collections of poetry including EARLY LINOLEUM (Counterpath Press, 2015) and IF NOT METAMORPHIC (Ahsahta Press, 2010) as well as numerous chapbooks and artist's books. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books, 2010) and editor of ECO LANGUAGE READER. She lives in Brooklyn.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA