Bibliograph

Bestiary, poems, Donika Kelly ; selected by Nikky Finney

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Bestiary, poems, Donika Kelly ; selected by Nikky Finney

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Bestiary

Responsibility statement

Donika Kelly ; selected by Nikky Finney

Sub title

poems

Summary

Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." 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. Selected and with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Bestiary questions what makes us human, what makes us whole

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