The Animal Is in the World Like Water in Water

by Leslie Scalapino

Poetry. Art. Originally printed as an artist book by Granary Books in an edition of 40 in 2010. "THE ANIMAL IS IN THE WORLD LIKE WATER IN WATER is a collaboration of drawings by Kiki Smith and poetry by Leslie Scalapino (myself).... Kiki Smith sent me color xeroxes of a completed sequence, forty-three drawings, which she'd titled, 'Women Being Eaten by Animals.' I wrote the poem using the sense of an unalterable past occurrence: One female, apparently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983504539
• ISBN13: 9780983504535
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Compline
• Length: 40 Pages