With macabre humor, You, Beast explores the roots and limits of human empathy. Nick Lantz examines our strange, absurd, and often brutal relationship with other animals, from roaches scuttling across the kitchen floor to pigs whose heart valves can replace our own. In poems ranging from found text to villanelles, and from short plays to fables, this lyric collection tracks the troubled ways we define our humanity through mythology, language, politics, art, and food.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 07/11/2003
ISBN: 9780299311742
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 7.00w x 0.50d