The Animal in the Room av Meghan Kemp-Gee

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<p><strong>Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.</strong></p>

<p>Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body — really, anything you might want to write a poem about. Together, these poems are an evolutionary chart or a little bestiary – about deer, wolves, evolution, environmental collapse, and extinction. Each one stands alone as a contained organism, but like real animals, they share some genetic material with each other. <span>Considering PTSD and anxiety disorder as a kind of animal experience, a self-protective mechanism, these poems embody the selves we see reflected in the natural world’s creatures. Deer are a way of putting fear and trauma outside yourself, wolves a way to understand the instincts of predators.</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>"Oh the pleasure of inhabiting the mind of an animal like Meghan Kemp-Gee! Her po