The Animals [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Richard Grossman's 400-poem pastoral, The Animals, invites us to enter a world where all the inhabitants speak the same language, creating a powerful literary work that voices the concerns of the entire global community. In its exploration of personal issues and emotions, this unique and moving book affirms the great family of terrestrial life, seeking to unveil the sources of its wisdom and beauty, sources that lie at the heart of all poetry. At the center of the book is a chorus of 200 different animals, representing the broad spectrum of earthly life from the amoeba to the whale. As each of the creatures sings to us, their individual stories reveal how all life shares the same suffering, dignity and joy. Surrounding
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Overview

Richard Grossman's 400-poem pastoral, The Animals, invites us to enter a world where all the inhabitants speak the same language, creating a powerful literary work that voices the concerns of the entire global community. In its exploration of personal issues and emotions, this unique and moving book affirms the great family of terrestrial life, seeking to unveil the sources of its wisdom and beauty, sources that lie at the heart of all poetry. At the center of the book is a chorus of 200 different animals, representing the broad spectrum of earthly life from the amoeba to the whale. As each of the creatures sings to us, their individual stories reveal how all life shares the same suffering, dignity and joy. Surrounding these poems are 200 dialogues between the animals as a flock and a shepherd who tends them. Prophetic and mystical, at times humorous and vulnerable, this humane guide leads us on a wondrous journey toward a heightened awareness and a deeper appreciation of the sanctity of nature. In the culminating poems of the book, the shepherd and animals join in an extended hymn to the luminous forces that bind them together in birth and death. The Animals has been described as an environmental bible, a manual of inspiration for people who are working to nourish and heal the earth. A work of immense ambition, this intricate spiritual and philosophical book affirms the beauty, holiness, and quintessential unity of all life. The Animals is one of 33 elements—including works of prose, poetry, art, music, dance, architecture, and theater—that will be featured in Grossman’s Breeze Avenue, the author’s forthcoming 3,000,000-page book about heaven.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780984649716
  • Publisher: American Letters Press
  • Publication date: 8/8/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 418
  • Sales rank: 615,075
  • File size: 1 MB

Meet the Author

Richard Grossman was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1943. The son of a Chevrolet dealer, he was
raised in Minneapolis and then attended Stanford University, from which he graduated with a
degree in English literature. After a time spent living overseas in France, Israel and Morocco, he
returned to Minneapolis in 1967 where he worked as a high-level executive at Gelco, a multinational
financial services company.
Grossman left the corporate world in 1976 in order to dedicate his time to writing. His first book
of poetry, Tycoon Boy, was published by kayak in 1977 and was followed by The Animals,
which was published in 1983 and reissued by Graywolf in 1990.
For the past two decades Grossman has been concentrating on a trilogy entitled American
Letters. Its first two volumes, The Alphabet Man, describing hell, and The Book of Lazarus,
describing purgatory, were published by FC2 in 1993 and 1997 respectively. The trilogy’s final
installment, Breeze Avenue, a 3,000,000-page work on heaven, is scheduled for publication in
late 2013.
Thirty-five books from the trilogy will be published between 2011 and 2015.
Grossman lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lisa Lyons, and their Australian Terrier pal,
Boswell.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 16, 2011

    Beautiful!!!

    This edition of The Animals is absolutely gorgeous. It is a work of art. But more importantly, the writing is beyond beautiful. I love each and every poem. The relationship between the animals and the shepherd, to me, is a metaphor for God and his creatures, and how each of us on this earth has a purpose we often do not understand, but is important, nonetheless. These poems take me to a spiritual place, and has me contemplating the complexities of our world and our relationship to a higher power. I love The Animals!

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