The Animal Library |
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Author:
| Camlot, Jason |
Series title: | New Writers Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-919688-64-3 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2000 |
Publisher: | DC Books
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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The Animal Library marks the debut of a remarkable poet -- a poet of the flesh, his own and that of the animals he has lived with all his life, whether real or imaginary. Jason Camlot's father was a furrier and he grew up in a world where, inevitably, "baby fur gets in your eyes" or in "your mouth." In dreams, the poet becomes a whale corpse "washed up/ on a very pale beach/ and hundreds of flies came,/ and people,/ to see the tusk,/ spun like coral glass." And as the boy...
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The Animal Library marks the debut of a remarkable poet -- a poet of the flesh, his own and that of the animals he has lived with all his life, whether real or imaginary. Jason Camlot's father was a furrier and he grew up in a world where, inevitably, "baby fur gets in your eyes" or in "your mouth." In dreams, the poet becomes a whale corpse "washed up/ on a very pale beach/ and hundreds of flies came,/ and people,/ to see the tusk,/ spun like coral glass." And as the boy grows up, images, at once curiously literal and yet surreal -- images of being devoured or skinned alive -- stay with him. The beauty of this collection is one of the mot juste, a concreteness and precision, coupled with a superb sense of rhythm.
-- Marjorie Perloff