Lives of the Animals

Lives of the Animals takes us to that place where the boundaries between predator and prey, the observer and the observed, merge, reverse, become re-imagined. We find ourselves inside a story of death and life, witness to acts of survival so primal they seem less instinctive than passionate. And it is passion that most informs these poems: the bond between lovers, between parent and child, between humans and other animals, both wild and domestic, that populate our shared world of hunger and need.

Author: Robert Wrigley
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/30/2003
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9780142003459

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/23/2003 pg. 24

About the Author
Robert Wrigley is a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. His sixth and most recent book, Lives of the Animals, won the 2004 Poets' Prize.