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's involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry, research movement, visual arts, floral and faunal studies and ecological sociology. She is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry, including REMEMBERING ANIMALS (Nightboat Books, 2016), EARLY LINOLEUM (Counterpath Press, 2015), IF NOT METAMORPHIC (Ahsahta Press, 2010), and AROUND SEA (O Books, 2004), as well as numerous chapbooks and artist's books. Iijima is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, located in Brooklyn, NY, and she is also the editor of the ECO LANGUAGE READER (Nightboat Books, 2010).
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA