Humanimus

by David Huebert

David Huebert's Humanimus presents a world of soiled nature, of compromised ecology, of toxic transcendence. Raising environmental precarity to the level of mythos, this book?implicates readers in what Dominic Pettman calls the "humanimalchine," where modern cyborg bodies are rewired and remixed with mechanical membranes and animal prostheses. Revelling in corporeal excess and industrial abjection, Humanimus fans the ash of the human experiment to see what strange beauty might wilt and whimper there.

Genres: Poetry

100 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2020

About the author

David Huebert is a Canadian writer of fiction, poetry, and critical prose whose work has won the CBC Short Story Prize, the Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize, and the Walrus Poetry Prize, among other awards. His debut short fiction collection, Peninsula Sinking (Biblioasis 2017) won the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award, was runner up for the Danuta Gleed Award, and was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, provocative and often fun poems centred around human-environment interactions, with a whole section on oil, its transformation from zooplankton into pollutant. Huebert loves scientific language and plays with it. Despite a heady theme, the book is consistently playful and fun to read. It's also very personal, touching on fatherhood and falling in love, with plenty of pop culture references. It's a post-renaissance renaissance. \

I had a lovely chat with the poet himself: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xu-dtz...