National Animal

National Animal

Derek Webster (CA)

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National Animal, Derek Webster's second book of poetry, inhabits a wider public space than his acclaimed debut Mockingbird. In poems that extend beyond the biographical toward the political, Webster's quiet, sharp-eyed narrator-a man "tripping / my way forward, trying to lead my own life"-watches history being erased in favour of more socially palatable ideas and comforting self-portraits. Uncompromising and substantial, National Animal explores our "civic moment" where "birds sing oblivion / estranged from all things," and meditates, in a final image-rich sequence, on our place in a science-based cosmos.

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ISBN-13: 9781550656572

Number of pages: 80

Format: Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US)

Imprint: Signal Editions

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