As our treatment of nonhuman animals is increasingly implicated in planetary crises—from climate change to global pandemics to unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss and species extinction—it’s clear that an urgent reconsideration of our relationship to other animals is not only necessary but overdue.
How we write about animals, how we represent them in our poems and stories, doesn’t simply reflect how we relate to them in the world; it also shapes how we treat them. Any cultural shift in how we conceive of other animals requires a shift in how we read and write about them. The New Sentience seeks to help catalyze this shift by ushering in a new kind of animal poetry, what editors Ashley Capps and Allison Titus dub “kinpoetics.” Whereas animals in Western poetry have disproportionately functioned as symbols, the poems in this anthology foreground a meaningful awareness of animal sentience and subjectivity, depicting other animals as individuals with dynamic selfhood, personalities, and emotional lives.
Stylistically wide-ranging, the poets featured here, among them Wendell Berry, Lucille Clifton, E. E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, Ross Gay, and Margaret Atwood, apply scrutinous lyrical attention to the animal experience in such surprising and illuminating ways that the reader can’t avoid an earnest reexamination of what humans owe our more-than-human kin. With humility, empathy, and curiosity, the work in this anthology reaffirms the vital connections between humans, animals, and the natural world. This pioneering book will impel readers to a deeper understanding of the lives of the creatures that share our planet and will inspire poets and writers to a more compassionate, meaningful engagement with animal subjects and lives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Sentience or Relation: A Preface Provocation. Foreword, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Introduction
- Humberto Ak’abal
- A. R. Ammons
- Holly Amos
- Talvikki Ansel
- Fatimah Asghar
- Margaret Atwood
- Cameron Awkward-Rich
- David Baker
- Noah Baldino
- Wendell Berry
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Kimberly Blaeser
- Robert Bly
- Nickole Brown
- Oni Buchanan
- Ashley Capps
- Anne Carson
- Franny Choi
- Lucille Clifton
- CAConrad
- E. E. Cummings
- Jack Davis
- Marissa Davis
- Timothy Donnelly
- Mark Doty
- Camille Dungy
- JJJJJerome Ellis
- Hannah Emerson
- Huang Fan
- James Galvin
- Ross Gay
- Laura Gilpin
- Aracelis Girmay
- Jorie Graham
- Linda Gregerson
- Linda Gregg
- Brandan Griffin
- Joy Harjo
- Mikko Harvey
- Christian Hawkey
- Terrance Hayes
- Tytti Heikkinen
- Brenda Hillman
- Jane Hirshfield
- Linda Hogan
- Hiromi Itō
- Lêdo Ivo
- Isaac Jarnot
- Jonathan Johnson
- Fady Joudah
- Moses Jumper Jr.
- Brigit Pegeen Kelly
- Sophie Klahr
- Ted Kooser
- Melissa Kwasny
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- David Dodd Lee
- Paul Legault
- Ada Limón
- Tao Lin
- Raymond Luczak
- Gretchen Marquette
- David Mason
- Shane McCrae
- W. S. Merwin
- Les Murray
- Cuthwulf Eileen Myles
- Sawako Nakayasu
- Sarah Rose Nordgren
- Miller Oberman
- Mary Oliver
- Caryl Pagel
- Bradley Paul
- Craig Santos Perez
- Niina Pollari
- Joshua Poteat
- Gretchen Primack
- Marc Rahe
- Alberto Ríos
- Pattiann Rogers
- Jerome Rothenberg
- Mary Ruefle
- Brayan Salinas
- Robyn Schiff
- Zachary Schomburg
- Tim Seibles
- John Shoptaw
- Emily Skillings
- Abraham Smith
- Austin Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Juliana Spahr
- Gerald Stern
- Nomi Stone
- Allison Titus
- Nikki Wallschlaeger
- Candace Williams
- Keith S. Wilson
- Matthew Zapruder
- Contributors’ Notes
- Acknowledgments and Credits
- Index of Poems by Animal
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