Artist's statement -- A brief history of motivations -- Bête féroce -- Wickedness -- Harpy -- Witch -- The woods are dangerous, dark and deep -- Taxis derma -- Rusalka -- What only comes out at night -- Lupine in jardin des plantes -- Yankee vampire -- Puppet -- Neighbors at night -- Stones -- Ethical concerns -- Life on Mars -- Unicorn -- Sea serpent -- Mother of all that crawls.
Summary:
"At the heart of all violence is fear: Lupine is a gathering of feminist prose poetry engaging themes of ecology, animality, and the human unknown. A series of interconnected dramatic monologues, the poems inhabit the personae of figures traditionally deemed Monstrous, giving them voice to confront and reclaim the violent mythologies that have so often been imposed upon them. As these unmuzzled monsters speak, the collection collapses the boundaries between the self and the subjugated other, ultimately upending the discourse of monstrosity itself. By exposing how women are villainized and sacrificed in response to cultural fear, Lupine offers a corrective to social narratives in which notions of the bestial and notions of the feminine are intimately entwined"--Publisher's description.
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