Mammoth
Larissa Andrusyshyn's dèbut collection confronts loss and mourning by exploring the lyric science behind keeping things alive in a world where technology is at work reviving extinct species. Through strikingly innovative uses of metaphor, personification, and surrealistic leaps of narrative imagination, this exciting and wide-ranging collection of poems about family and memory in the context of human bio-intervention pushes our thinking about the relationship between parts (fragments, shards, things washed up in pieces) and wholes (cohering personal narratives and stories, ecosystems, and other contextualizing frameworks, The Universe). Witness to the process and fact of her father's death, Andrusyshyn proceeds to find him again through a series of innovative poems that move seamlessly from the Museum to the Petri dish, the fairground to the cloning lab. Mammoth approaches the incomprehensibility of death from the perspective of Blake's 'Auguries of Innocence' and consequently develops its own mode of post-Darwinian elegy, wherein death is examined without bathos, through the paleontologist's magnifying glass and the geneticist's microscope.

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Mammoth
Larissa Andrusyshyn's dèbut collection confronts loss and mourning by exploring the lyric science behind keeping things alive in a world where technology is at work reviving extinct species. Through strikingly innovative uses of metaphor, personification, and surrealistic leaps of narrative imagination, this exciting and wide-ranging collection of poems about family and memory in the context of human bio-intervention pushes our thinking about the relationship between parts (fragments, shards, things washed up in pieces) and wholes (cohering personal narratives and stories, ecosystems, and other contextualizing frameworks, The Universe). Witness to the process and fact of her father's death, Andrusyshyn proceeds to find him again through a series of innovative poems that move seamlessly from the Museum to the Petri dish, the fairground to the cloning lab. Mammoth approaches the incomprehensibility of death from the perspective of Blake's 'Auguries of Innocence' and consequently develops its own mode of post-Darwinian elegy, wherein death is examined without bathos, through the paleontologist's magnifying glass and the geneticist's microscope.

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Mammoth

Mammoth

by Larissa Andrusyshyn
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Larissa Andrusyshyn's dèbut collection confronts loss and mourning by exploring the lyric science behind keeping things alive in a world where technology is at work reviving extinct species. Through strikingly innovative uses of metaphor, personification, and surrealistic leaps of narrative imagination, this exciting and wide-ranging collection of poems about family and memory in the context of human bio-intervention pushes our thinking about the relationship between parts (fragments, shards, things washed up in pieces) and wholes (cohering personal narratives and stories, ecosystems, and other contextualizing frameworks, The Universe). Witness to the process and fact of her father's death, Andrusyshyn proceeds to find him again through a series of innovative poems that move seamlessly from the Museum to the Petri dish, the fairground to the cloning lab. Mammoth approaches the incomprehensibility of death from the perspective of Blake's 'Auguries of Innocence' and consequently develops its own mode of post-Darwinian elegy, wherein death is examined without bathos, through the paleontologist's magnifying glass and the geneticist's microscope.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781897190630
Publisher: D C Books
Publication date: 03/15/2010
Series: Punchy Poetry
Edition description:

Larissa Andrusyshyn's dèbut collection confronts loss and mourning by exploring the lyric science

Pages: 72
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Larissa Andrusyshyn's poetry has appeared in Headlight, Soliloquies, Versal and in the anthologies Running With Scissors (Cumulus Press) and The Future Hygyenic (Pistol Press 2009). Her work has also been shortlisted for the Arc Magazine poem of the Year in 2009. She presently co-ordinates writing workshops for at-risk youth and works at a veterinary hospital. A multi-celled, carbon-based life form, she lives and writes in Montreal.

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