{"product_id":"absolute-animal-9780226829050","title":"Absolute Animal","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that traverse and question the lines between human and animal behavior.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Experimenting with time, language, and transgressing boundaries, the poems in \u003ci\u003eabsolute animal\u003c\/i\u003e lean into Nabokov's notion that precision belongs to poetry and intuition to science. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rachel DeWoskin's new collection navigates the chaos of societal and mortal uncertainty. Through formal poetry, DeWoskin finds sense amid disorder and unearths connections between the animal and the human, between the ancient and the contemporary, and between languages, incorporating translations from poems dating as far back as the Tang dynasty. From sonnet sequences about heart surgeries to examinations of vole romance and climate change, \u003ci\u003e absolute animal\u003c\/i\u003e investigates and moves across boundaries and invites us to consider what holds life, what lasts, what dies, and what defines and enriches the experience of being human. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel DeWoskin \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of five critically acclaimed novels: \u003ci\u003eBanshee\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSomeday We Will Fly\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBlind\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBig Girl Small\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Repeat After Me\u003c\/i\u003e; and the memoir \u003ci\u003eForeign Babes in Beijing\u003c\/i\u003e; along with the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eTwo Menus\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Her essays, poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Sunday Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eof London, \u003ci\u003eCondé Nast Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsian Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFar Eastern Economic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Delta Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Orleans Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeneca Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is on the core creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty in Jewish and East Asian Studies. DeWoskin also serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719847579922,"sku":"9780226829050","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e7aea1d-db14-4e15-a1d0-032ae86c3b80.jpg?v=1734670328","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/absolute-animal-9780226829050","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}