Enter The Raccoon

by Beatriz Hausner

Enter the Raccoon documents a love affair between a woman and a raccoon. They are a couple that loves without preconceptions, whose being together eschews all limits until their beliefs in the self are put to the test. Their story unfolds each time one surrenders to the other in a sometimes melancholic and cruel, other times joyful, even ecstatic embrace.

It is a human-sized raccoon that greets you as you plunge into the subconscious wiring of Beatriz Hausner, accessed through this prosthetic book machine, this "mechanical extremity" that bids you to Enter the Raccoon. This is a book you will wish you could dream. Its cumulative prose lines extend through the essay, the anecdote, the fable, into the realm of fancy, fantasy, and fornicating (transpecies) wish fulfillment. It arrives at poetry and dives through that soft mirror to reveal the ancient machine working the illusion in the kingdom of happiness. This is the machine that knows you, and whispers things to you about your magic body that you can only imagine. It speaks of love as a thing made at the origin of language only to explode in radiant embrace. - Gregory Betts

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 2012

Reviews

[Jordan Abel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was pretty excellent! How can you ignore a book about giant anthropomorphic raccoon with a mechanical hand? I really enjoyed the way the this collection of poetry oscillated between sections about Raccoon and sections about the speaker. The pacing was excellent. The language was crisp. The ideas explored were intriguing and complicated and, almost miraculously, intuitive. Thanks, Beatriz Hausner!

[Bob · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh... I cant see myself picking up another of her books. The surrealism of this wore off quick and it just read like a self indulgent journal.

I just stopped caring. Wish I had dnf'd before getting half way through. Only finished because it was so short.

[Raoul · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most imaginative short stories I ever read.

[britt✨]

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[Margaryta · Rating 4 out of 5]

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