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The gift of animals poems of love, loss, and connection

"This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. The Gift of Animals includes poems by some of today's most beloved poets, inc...

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Other Authors: Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: North Adams, WA : Storey Publishing, 2025.
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Animals > Poetry.
Human-animal relationships > Poetry.
Poetry.
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Summary:"This unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. The Gift of Animals includes poems by some of today's most beloved poets, including Ellen Bass, Lucille Clifton, Michael Collier, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Camille Dungy, Mark Doty, Nick Flynn, Jorie Graham, Joy Harjo, Terrance Hayes, Arthur Sze, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ada LimoĢn, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Craig Santos Perez, Paisley Rekdal, and more"--
Physical Description:pages ; cm
ISBN:9781635868562
1635868564
Author Notes:Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of five nonfiction books, including Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit , and five poetry collections including Stairway to Heaven and Science and Other Poems , which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets; as well as the editor of Poetry of the American West and co-editor of The Colors of Nature . Her work also appears in the Norton Book of Nature Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing . Deming served as poet-in-residence at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Florida, where she curated a poetry installation, and as poet-in-residence at the Milwaukee Public Library and Milwaukee Museum where she curated a poetry installation along with programming shared by the two institutions. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair of Environment and Social Justice, she is currently Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona.

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