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To Those Who Were Our First Gods

Nickole Brown

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For the past three years, Nickole Brown has been at work on a bestiary of sorts, investigating the complex, interdependent, and often fraught relationship between human and non-human animals. In this chapbook you’ll find the first results of this project—nine poems from her new manuscript, all focusing on the experience of creatures in a world shaped (and increasingly destroyed) by us. These pieces—some of them long sequences that operate like lean, lyric essays—have their sight set upon the natural world. But these are not poems of privilege that gaze out the window from a place of comfortable remove. No, these are not the kind of pastorals that always made Brown (and most of the working-class folks from her Kentucky childhood) feel shut out of nature and the writing about it; instead they speak in a queer, Southern-trash-talking kind of way about nature beautiful, damaged, dangerous, and in desperate need of saving.

Format:

Pages:: 48 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Rattle Foundation

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1931307393

ISBN13:: 9781931307390

kindle Asin:: 1931307393

To Those Who Were Our First Gods

Nickole Brown

4.51/5 (148 ratings)

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For the past three years, Nickole Brown has been at work on a bestiary of sorts, investigating the complex, interdependent, and often fraught relationship between human and non-human animals. In this chapbook you’ll find the first results of this project—nine poems from her new manuscript, all focusing on the experience of creatures in a world shaped (and increasingly destroyed) by us. These pieces—some of them long sequences that operate like lean, lyric essays—have their sight set upon the natural world. But these are not poems of privilege that gaze out the window from a place of comfortable remove. No, these are not the kind of pastorals that always made Brown (and most of the working-class folks from her Kentucky childhood) feel shut out of nature and the writing about it; instead they speak in a queer, Southern-trash-talking kind of way about nature beautiful, damaged, dangerous, and in desperate need of saving.

Format:

Pages:: 48 pages

Publication:: 2018

Publisher:: Rattle Foundation

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1931307393

ISBN13:: 9781931307390

kindle Asin:: 1931307393

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