Animal Logic

Both hymn and howl, Animal Logic speaks in the language of survival. Arah Ko concerns herself with how our world’ s glorious flora and fauna are watched, hunted, cared for, named, ready “ to add them to the past and future bestiary, that record we living keep for the dead.” These poems— which consider the drift of jellyfish and the soar of blackbirds— are “ built for threat, recoiling from bear caves, cleaned bones, venomous tongues.” In equal measures a work of ecocriticism and a study of ...