After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. What we've made of ourselves. I was expecting something else, so I think that’s partly why I didn’t really enjoy it. . Welcome back. How can you not love a book about animals and love and history? . Lurking in the middle of this powerful and multifaceted collection is a wrenching sequence that wonders just who or what is the real monster inside this life of survival and reflection. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. This wasn’t really a book of poems about creatures, like the synopsis leads you to believe, but rather a book of typical poems lamenting hardships and trials of life. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." This is a brave little book, and it takes its strength from the body and from the natural world. I particularly love "Bower (Consider the bowerbird...)" that closes with this stunner: I've never reviewed an individual author's collection of poetry, and it's hard to get my mind around it. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I was also impressed by its cohesiveness and how different the experience was when I read poems at random vs in order; the intentional arrangment of each poem worked well and powerfully.

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Download PDF. What menagerieare we. I "liked" its rhythm and weaving of nature into emotions into memories, etc. Donika Kelly’s Bestiary is a catalog of creatures—from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. . Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018. Learn more. Outstanding.

Her poems resonate with longing and vulnerability, and never shy away from dark truths. Though, some of its content matter (predatory father) made me hurt/cringe i. . Bio donika kelly is the author of the chapbook aviarium fivehundred places 2017 and the full length collection bestiary graywolf 2016 winner of the 2015 cave canem poetry prize the 2017 hurston wright award for poetry and the 2018 kate tufts discovery awardbestiary was long listed for the national book award 2016 and a finalist for a lambda literary award and a publishing triangle . Bursting with animal imagery the collection takes wing and glides. There's a problem loading this menu right now. . The poems in this book are raw and quiet---they wound and soothe in equal measure. . I felt like I was curled on my bed as a young child again, reading from the dog-eared copy of Greek Myths I toted everywhere. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." Does this book contain inappropriate content? . Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? Guest, Gerald B. In the process, the book breaks you, then fixes you. "The Beautiful Lucifer as an Object of Aesthetic Contemplation in the Central Middle Ages." Be the first to ask a question about Bestiary. . Rating: Unapologetically black, queer, and feminine this volume packs a hell of a punch.

There is immense hurt and righteous anger in these poems. Please try again. That word "migration" is so fitting for this book, considering the arrangement of these poems, which begins with a poem called "Out West" and ends with one titled "Back East," and the multiple birds that appear throughout the volume! October 11th 2016 This page is designed to be useful to others attending that group but also anyone else interested in this particular work.

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. Kelly writes about the struggles to transform and to free oneself from human traumas: the death of loved ones, abuse, loneliness. Also threads of fathers who mistake daughters for lovers and mothers who disappear and black girlhood. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. The love poems, in particular, are striking with unexpected ideas and imagery coalescing into poetry about this thing called love.