| The Dead Animal Handbook: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Contributor(s): Awkward-Rich, Cam (Editor), Sax, Sam (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1938753232 ISBN-13: 9781938753237 Publisher: University of Hell Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.608 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.48 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Dead Animal Handbook is a field guide to contemporary American poetry. Collecting and compiling emerging and established writers from a range of backgrounds, this Handbook charts one of poetry's most used tropes in order to bring the dead animal back to life. We're eager and we're earnest. Poets include: Mart n Espada, Airea D. Matthews, Jericho Brown, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Traci Brimhall, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Franny Choi, CAConrad, Dean Young, Aziza Barnes, Rachel McKibbens, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, D.A. Powell, and many more talents. Warning: if you dare carry on, beware carrion. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sax, Sam: - Sam Sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017), winner of The National Poetry Series selected by Terrance Hayes. His second book Bury It will be out on Wesleyan University Press in 2018. He's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Lambda Literary.Awkward-Rich, Cam: - Cam Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and the chapbook Transit (Button Poetry, 2015). A Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, his poetry has appeared in Narrative, The Baffler, Indiana Review and elsewhere. Currently, Cam is a doctoral candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University and has essays forthcoming/in Science Fiction Studies and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. |