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Animals strike curious poses essays

Sixteen essays about individual animals, including wild (woolly mammoth, rhinoceros, starling, crocodile, gorilla, lion) and domesticated (housecat, racing pigeons, elephant, horses, goats), named and made famous by humans.

Main Author: Passarello, Elena (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Famous animals.
Famous animals > Miscellanea.
Essays.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Summary: Sixteen essays about individual animals, including wild (woolly mammoth, rhinoceros, starling, crocodile, gorilla, lion) and domesticated (housecat, racing pigeons, elephant, horses, goats), named and made famous by humans.
Physical Description: 214 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781941411391
1941411398
Author Notes: Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat , won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction, and The Iowa Review , among other publications, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay . Passarello lives in Corvallis, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.

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