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Animal Purpose: Poems
Michelle Y. Burke
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Description for Animal Purpose: Poems
Paperback. Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. In another, a couple confronts the recent loss of a loved one when a stranger makes an unexpected confession in a crowded restaurant. Set in both rural and urban spaces, these poems challenge received ideas about work, gender, and place. Danger blurs into beauty and back again. Burke scours the hard edges of the world to ... Read more
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. In another, a couple confronts the recent loss of a loved one when a stranger makes an unexpected confession in a crowded restaurant. Set in both rural and urban spaces, these poems challenge received ideas about work, gender, and place. Danger blurs into beauty and back again. Burke scours the hard edges of the world to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Series
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821421987
SKU
V9780821421987
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About Michelle Y. Burke
Michelle Y. Burke is also the author of Horse Loquela, winner of the Red Mountain Review Chapbook Series Award. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Douglas Watson, and their daughter.
Reviews for Animal Purpose: Poems
“Elegant and emblematic as the beasts inhabiting Burke’s Animal Purpose, these poems ask impossible questions of love, death, and the all too human constructs meant to manage both. What a painfully beautiful debut this is.” “[Burke] has an exceptional ability to translate a common animal into a vision or metaphor with restraint via dignified stanzas that credit the materialized world ... Read more