The Dead Animal Handbook: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry

by Cameron Awkward-Rich (Editor), Sam Sax (Editor)

The Dead Animal Handbook is a field guide to contemporary American poetry. Collecting and compiling emerging and established writers from a range of backgrounds, this Handbook charts one of poetry's most used tropes in order to bring the dead animal back to life. We're eager and we're earnest.



Poets include: MartIn Espada, Airea D. Matthews, Jericho Brown, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Traci Brimhall, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Franny Choi, CAConrad, Dean Young, Aziza Barnes, Rachel McKibbens, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, D.A. Powell, and many more talents.



Warning: if you dare carry on, beware carrion.

Genres: Poetry, Anthologies

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 26, 2017

About the author

Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and a scholar of trans theory/expressive culture. Awkward-Rich received his B.A. in English and Biology from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His writing and teaching creatively combine trans/feminist/queer theory, disability studies, black studies, and poetry and other forms of experimental writing to explore transgender aesthetics and cultural production, the conflicted histories of trans/feminist/queer thought in the U.S., and collective affect/feeling.

Presently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Reviews

[TheBookWarren · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75 Stars - Evocative, powerful this elliptical collection has much going for it but none more so than the raw emotive energy & the ease to which much of the material flows for those non-poets like myself!

Hard to ignore, incredibly dense & rich - worth reading a few a day, a week & pondering for full effectiveness I feel.

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

First book of poetry I've read in a long time. Gorgeous poems with lots of tastefully disturbing imagery.