National Animal

By Derek Webster

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550656570
• ISBN13: 9781550656572
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Signal Editions
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.5"