ANIMAL

Constellating four central topicsghosts, colors, animals, and beesin highly attuned prose, Dorothea Lasky explores the powers and complexities of the lyric, metaphysical I, which she exposes as one of the central expressions of human wildness. In deceptively s imple language carrying profound insights directly to readerswith a sense that is at once bold and subtleLasky serves as an encour aging guide through the startling, sometimes dangerous, always exhilarating landscapes of feral poetic imagination.