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Zoologies
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Description for Zoologies
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 357.
Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world -- both as physical beings and spiritual symbols -- and not returning. In this collection of linked essays, Alison Hawthorne Deming asks, and seeks to answer: what does the disappearance of animals mean for human imagination and existence? Moving from mammoth hunts to dying house cats, she explores profound questions about what it means to be animal. What is inherent in animals that leads us to destroy, and what that ... Read more
Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world -- both as physical beings and spiritual symbols -- and not returning. In this collection of linked essays, Alison Hawthorne Deming asks, and seeks to answer: what does the disappearance of animals mean for human imagination and existence? Moving from mammoth hunts to dying house cats, she explores profound questions about what it means to be animal. What is inherent in animals that leads us to destroy, and what that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571313485
SKU
V9781571313485
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About Alison Hawthorne Deming
Alison Hawthorne Deming is the Winner of the Walt Whitman Award, finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and a former Stegner Fellow. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and a Chair of the Board for Orion. She splits her time between Tucson, AZ and Grand Manan, New Brunswick.
Reviews for Zoologies
"Deming combines aesthetic splendor with serpentine intellect and wry humor."
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