Our Animal

By Meredith Stricker

Our Animal hybridizes novel flaking into poetic forms like a gnat swarm, magnetic filings, or migratory flux. It's a fierce inquiry into Othering, tracking Kafka's life through his deep identification with animals, especially those hunted or outcast. Graphically complex with metamorphic text layers, the chapters shape-shift in relation to crows, dragonflies, a frog; there are deer, swallows, a goldfinch, humans, a hybrid Beast, wolf, Insekt, a small unidentified animal in its burrow. We are entangled in biography as biology-- paradisiacal transfiguration that leaves out no being.

Our Animal is the winner of the 2014 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest, selected by Mary Jo Bang.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632430193
• ISBN13: 9781632430199
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"