The Animal Is Chemical

Lyrically enacting the cognitive dissonance and embodied contradictions of our contemporary age, Hadara Bar—Nadav’s The Animal Is Chemical collects innovative poems that straddle the frontiers of language and scientific knowledge. She brilliantly draws on her own experience as a medical editor and her family’s history of Holocaust survival to write into the hybrid legacy of Western medicine: part clinical empiricism, part human fallibility and moral bankruptcy. Displaying a robust formal ra...