The Animal Within
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The Animal Within is filled with poems that want to swim together, focusing on animal and human nature. A few are ekphrastic, based on photography by Jaimie Huycke and Dennis Liddell. Dive in and readers find a world where horses speak their minds, crawdaddies sing, and mermaids find lust. Wolves howl "ahwoo at the full strawberry harvest moon in June," and birds do more than flap their wings, but rather create a voice for the oppressed. Humans step in, personas based off the author, and consider loss, depression, and love— inner-self mixed with creature habits— scratching down a lover's back or crying in a zoo. One persona connects with water, skinny-dipping her way into a galaxy reflection, "as quiet as you would expect it to be [she] sends a ripple through the moon." Hawiaain Goddesses tell their story about how the Yoni Crater came to be with a crash. Nature takes note and gets noticed, exploring transcendental and organic aspects. "The stream has no objection" as the poet takes liberty in playing with ideas of what it might be saying. A devine devotion to creatures large and small— flora and fauna finding a voice among calm and chaos, depending on the scene created. Each poem cups a piece of life— ideas not too far fetched— mundane and supernatural. With sounds all around, the author uses anaphora, alliteration, assonance, and other devices to give these animals and personas personality of their own. This chapbook implores readers to take a hiatus, step outside of themselves, and experience the animal within.
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The Animal Within - Kathrine Yets
The Animal Within
Kathrine Yets
Copyright © 2021 Kathrine Yets
All Rights Reserved
Published by Unsolicited Press
First Edition 2021.
Cover Designer: Kathryn Gerhardt
Cover Art: Sarah Richter
Editor: Kristen Marckmann
Acknowledgements
Kapo-keho-lele
Fickle Muses
Plath's Birthday
Wisconsin Writers Association Jade Ring Award 2018
Return to Revelations
Urights
Skinny Dipping in Ottowa
Straylight, Universal Oneness: Magnum Opus Anthology
Small Prayer
Blue Heron Review
The river
Antinarrative (different form)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contents
Bless You
Small Prayer
King of the Zoo
Caught a Crayfish
I’m Outta Here
Wolf
Purple Finch
After My Mother’s Diagnosis
Return to Revelations
A Day Depressed at the Zoo
Feeling Good
Plath’s Birthday
Kapo-keho-lele
The Mermaid
Skinny Dipping in Ottawa
The river
Fall Stream
Take me back to six in the morning,
Always Only
The Animal Within
About the Author
About the Press
Bless You
Suddenly I realize / That if I stepped out of my body I would break / Into