The Deep Zoo

The Deep Zoo - Paperback

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The Deep Zoo
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The Deep Zoo - Paperback

The Deep Zoo - Paperback

by Rikki Ducornet
$17.00
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by Rikki Ducornet (Author)

Rikki Ducornet's essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy-the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.

Within the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortáaacute;zar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep Zoo. Her essays take us from the glorious bestiary of Aloys Zöouml;tl to Abu Ghraib, from the tree of life to Sade's Silling Castle, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to virtual reality. Says Ducornet, "To write with the irresistible ink of tigers and the uncaging of our own Deep Zoo, we need to be attentive and fearless--above all very curious--and all at the same time."

Author Biography

The author of nine novels as well as collections of short stories, essays, and poems, Rikki Ducornet has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, honored twice by the Lannan Foundation, and the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature. Widely published abroad, Ducornet is also a painter who exhibits internationally. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

Number of Pages: 165
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: January 06, 2015
ISBN9781566893763
Author Rikki Ducornet
PublisherCoffee House Press
GenreLiterature and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages165
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Rikki Ducornet is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, Eros, tyranny and the transcendent capacities of the creative imagination. She is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist, and her fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. Her art has been exhibited internationally, most recently with Amnesty International's traveling exhibit I Welcome, focused on the refugee crisis. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, the Prix Guerlain, a Critics' Choice Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her novel The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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