{"product_id":"dogged","title":"Dogged","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDogged\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eStacy Gnall\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781625346421\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eLocated somewhere between fiction and reality, the animals of \u003ci\u003eDogged \u003c\/i\u003eexist as both \"creatures children see in their fevers\" and \"your one \/ good dream \/ in the night.\" Inhabiting a space apart from time and narrative, the space of the ever-elusive now, these haunting poems probe animal consciousness and desire, as \"howls float \/ like crocuses-- \/ violet \/ and half open \/ to the unknown.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Looking to a wide range of high and low visual media, from Steven Spielberg's \u003ci\u003eJaws\u003c\/i\u003e and Animal Planet's \u003ci\u003eFatal Attractions\u003c\/i\u003e to Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Hercules's dog discovering Tyrian purple, Stacy Gnall ponders human-animal connections and divisions, exploring those moments when human voices blend with \"silent\" beasts to exceed the limits of language. In \u003ci\u003eDogged\u003c\/i\u003e, animals emerge as the highest aspiration of poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAround the bend it was reckoned \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe would never grow old \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebecause there were no words for it.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI placed my arms soft \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003earound the neck of a fawn \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand she felt no alarm. Speech \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eis where we went wrong.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e (\u003ci\u003eFrom \"The Wood in Which Things Have No Name\")\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Dogged | Stacy Gnall | Book | 9781625346421 | New | Poetry 1411767","offer_id":50562292711682,"sku":"1411767","price":35.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/415L_VJWK2L.jpg?v=1790719656","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/dogged","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}