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: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 10/06/2011
ISBN: 9780299285005
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.36w x 1.01d

Review Citations: Booklist 10/01/2011 pg. 17
Library Journal 12/01/2011 pg. 123
Choice 03/01/2012