B/Rds

"B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon's Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours"--

Product details

• Authors: Béatrice Szymkowiak, BTatrice Szymkowiak
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781647691158
• ISBN: 978-1-64769-115-8
• No. of pages: 70
• Series: Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetr
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama