Animals Strike Curious Poses

Written by Elena Passarello

Narrated by Elena Passarello

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whipsmart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Everand Productions
• Release date: Sep 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094419817

Elena Passarello

Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Fellowship in nonfiction. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

Reviews for Animals Strike Curious Poses

[Darrell Dyck · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Couldn’t get through it. There was some great research that went into this book, no question. If it had been tied together with an interesting documentary narrative, or even some amusing fictional dialogue from the characters surrounding the selected bestiary members, I might have given it a proper go. But the Kafka-esque semi fictional padding of basic facts and mythologies just started to bore me. I’m probably in danger of sounding like Emperor Jo telling Mozart he wrote “too many notes” when I say most essays had just too many words going round and round in circles in order to get a short distance.

But who knows, you may like this book. If you like poetry, or the clever juxtaposition of words for the sounds they make as much as the meaning they are trying to communicate, you should give it a go and see for yourself.

[ma_washigeri · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

And a half star. I think everyone will have their favourites. Mine were Arabella, Lancelot and Vogel Staar. I didn't get through them all but it is the sort of book that rewards dipping here and there to enjoy whatever you fancy.... and there's some quite disturbing parts.

[smokler_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

If you love animals, you will never see them the same way again after reading Elena Passarello's brilliant, soulful collection of essays based on the stories of fascinating animals and our human interaction with them.

I loved this book. I learned so much and had so much fun learning it.