The poems in this first full collection from New Zealand's Janis Freegard are categorized by Linnaean taxonomy: the six sections Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, and Vermes are interspersed with a seven-part poem on the topic of Carolus Linneaus himself. Here Freegard catalogs the various fantastic and artistic, anthropomorphic and objective, rational and self-serving ways that humans draw on the animal world: as symbol and allegory, food and friend, ravening enemy, and sacred icon. From surreal prose poems to gorgeous listsfeaturing a stuffed Maori dog, murderous magpies, and...
The poems in this first full collection from New Zealand's Janis Freegard are categorized by Linnaean taxonomy: the six sections Mammalia, Aves, Amphi...
The poems in "The Glass Rooster" explore the spaces inhabited by humans and other creatures from natural ecosystems to cities and even to outer space. Our guide on this journey is a glass rooster observer of stars and lover of hens who first popped up in Janis Freegard s poetry years ago and wanders unchecked through the book. Each of the eight sections (or echo-systems ) in the book the Damp Places, Forest, Cityscape, the Alpine Zone, Space, Home & Garden, Underground, and In the Desert is introduced by a triolet: a French poetic form with repeated lines. Other poems are arranged in pairs,...
The poems in "The Glass Rooster" explore the spaces inhabited by humans and other creatures from natural ecosystems to cities and even to outer space....