{"product_id":"the-uncollected-animals-hrsg-von-john-kinsella","title":"The Uncollected Animals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeading poet and activist John Kinsella brings together a\nmajor international collection of contemporary and historical poetry that speaks\nto the rights and welfare of animals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uncollected Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique anthology of poetry\nbased around all non-human animal life, with the welfare and rights of animals\nat the forefront. The anthology includes over forty commissioned poems, and\nother poems provided by poets specifically for the anthology. These are set\nagainst an historical context of animal-referencing poems that range in time\nfrom ancient Greece to the 21st century. Kinsella’s introduction offers\ninsights into the eternal relationship of poetry to animals, and the creative\narrangement of the poems yields startling contrasts and alliances that will\ndraw readers into a powerful relationship with the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes 160 poems representing some sixteen\ncountries and many different cultures. Together, this collective utterance\nrespects and conserves a great variety of perspectives. Writing in a full range\nof styles, the diverse voices found inside include poets from Aristophanes,\nBlake, Coleridge, Du Fu, Melville, and Wordsworth to Anne Carson, CA Conrad,\nKimiko Hahn, Paul Laurence Dunbar, D.H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, Rita\nDove, and Marianne Moore, to important young voices, to performer\/lyricists\nsuch as Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. At all times, animals, their rights, and\ntheir welfare are at the fore, be they invertebrates, bird, mammal, reptile,\namphibian, or fish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a time of human-induced mass extinctions and rapid\nhuman-induced climate change, this subject could not be more vital and\nnecessary for all of us to consider, embrace, and act on with empathy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781885983602\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePoems for Our Nonhuman Kin\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781885983602","offer_id":58474521854277,"sku":"9781885983602","price":25.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_19cce5fa-04a6-40f5-a460-2243334900f0.jpg?v=1783310879","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-uncollected-animals-hrsg-von-john-kinsella","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}