{"product_id":"the-gift-of-animals-poems-of-love-loss-and-connection-hardcover","title":"The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, and Connection - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Hawthorne Deming\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin Wall Kimmerer\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Animals have long been a source of inspiration, sustenance, and companionship, and poems about and for animals are among the oldest traditions across human cultures. This collection of contemporary poems adds to this ancient lineage, celebrating animals for their beauty and intelligence; empathizing over their suffering; and hoping for their future, which is entwined with our own. The presence of an animal is a gift. The loss of an animal is a grief. To share such feelings through poetry is to create a community of caring for the creatures that accompany us on Earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Animals\u003c\/i\u003e includes poems by some of today's most beloved poets, including Ellen Bass, Lucille Clifton, Michael Collier, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Camille Dungy, Mark Doty, Nick Flynn, Jorie Graham, Joy Harjo, Terrance Hayes, Arthur Sze, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ada Lim?n, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Craig Santos Perez, Paisley Rekdal, and more.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Hawthorne Deming\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five nonfiction books, including \u003ci\u003eZoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, and five poetry collections including \u003ci\u003eStairway to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScience and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets; as well as the editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Colors of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work also appears in the \u003ci\u003eNorton Book of Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. Deming served as poet-in-residence at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Florida, where she curated a poetry installation, and as poet-in-residence at the Milwaukee Public Library and Milwaukee Museum where she curated a poetry installation along with programming shared by the two institutions. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair of Environment and Social Justice, she is currently Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337044943213,"sku":"9781635868562","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/XJUNpTP8DP9781635868562.webp?v=1778922911","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gift-of-animals-poems-of-love-loss-and-connection-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}