{"product_id":"a-bestiary-9780996316743","title":"A Bestiary","description":"Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, as in Lily Hoang's A BESTIARY. This book would be impressive enough as a collection of finely-forged fragments, but as it weaves itself into an even more impressive whole, my hat came off. Lily Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.--Maggie Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA BESTIARY is a work of great subtlety, precision, intelligence, daring, and emotive keenness. It seems completely contemporary (by which I mean that it is unlike anything I've read and that it makes me want to change my own writerly procedures). With head-long, reckless, improvisatory gestures, Lily Hoang prompts us to rethink what literature today can dare to aspire to. Her intellectually magnanimous book's position on the threshold between recognizable 'literature' and some other vanguard form of performance\/utterance made me feel happy and stimulated and dizzy (in a rapturous way) while I was reading it.--Wayne Koestenbaum\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The most perfect use of fragmentation, myth, language, fairytale, and terrible beauty that I have ever seen in my life. I'm swooning. My faith in what writing can be has been restored.--Lidia Yuknavitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lily Hoang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cleveland State University Poetry Center\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780996316743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoang, Lily:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lily Hoang's books include A BESTIARY (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2016), THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION (Les Figues, 2010), and CHANGING (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008), recipient of a PEN Open Books Award. She has two novels forthcoming: \u003cem\u003eOld Cat Lady\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Martha\u003c\/em\u003e and she co-edited the anthology THE FORCE OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE: WRITERS ON ACCESSIBILITY AND THE AVANT-GARDE (Nightboat Books, 2015). She teaches in the MFA program at New Mexico State University, where she is Associate Department Head. She serves as Prose Editor at \u003cem\u003ePuerto del Sol\u003c\/em\u003e and Non-Fiction Editor at \u003cem\u003eDrunken Boat\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cleveland State University Poetry Center","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39826202689651,"sku":"9780996316743","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_954e0797-8736-407f-91be-55f603a7a508.jpg?v=1644545090","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-bestiary-9780996316743","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}