{"product_id":"the-deep-zoo-9781566893763","title":"The Deep Zoo","description":"\u003cb\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal's\u003c\/i\u003e 25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cort 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Deep Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays take us from the glorious bestiary of Aloys Z tl to Abu Ghraib, from the tree of life to Sade's Silling Castle, from \u003ci\u003eThe Epic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDucornet's skill at drawing unexpected connections, and her ability to move between outrage and meditativeness, are gripping to behold.--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of essays meditates on art, mysticism, and more; it'll leave a reader with plenty to ponder.--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRikki Ducornet's new collection The Deep Zoo is filled with smart and surprising essays that explore our connections to the world through art.--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\"The Deep Zoo\" acts as a kind of foundational text, a lens to view her work and the other essays through. . . Subversive at heart and acutely perceptive.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNumero Cinq\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDucornet moves between these facets of human experience with otherworldly grace, creating surprising parallels and associations. . . The Deep Zoo is a testament to her acrobatic intelligence and unflinching curiosity. Ducornet not only trusts the subconscious, she celebrates and interrogates it.--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heavy Feather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What struck me most about this collection, and what I am confident will pull me back to it again, is Ducornet's obvious passion for life. She is . . . attentive, fearless, and curious. And for a hundred pages we get to see how it feels to exist like that, what it's like to think critically and still be open to the world.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleaver Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rikki Ducornet is imagination's emissary to this mundane world.\"--\u003cb\u003eStephen Sparks\u003c\/b\u003e, Green Apple Books on the Park \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is like the secret at the heart of the world; I've put other books aside.--\u003cb\u003eAnne Germanacos, author of \u003ci\u003eTribute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Rikki Ducornet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDucornet--surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times--is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously.--\u003cb\u003eJeff Vandermeer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA unique combination of the practical and fabulous, a woman equally alive to the possibilities of joy and the necessity of political responsibility, a creature--  la Shakespeare's Cleopatra--of 'infinite variety, ' Ducornet is a writer of extraordinary power, in whose books 'rigor and imagination' (her watchwords) perform with the grace and daring of high-wire acrobats.--\u003cb\u003eLaura Mullen, \u003ci\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe perversity, decadence, and even the depravity that Ducornet renders here feel explosively fresh because their sources are thought and emotion, not the body, and finally there's some pathos too.-- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDucornet's skill at drawing unexpected connections, and her ability to move between outrage and meditativeness, are gripping to behold.--\u003cb\u003eTobias Carroll, \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of essays meditates on art, mysticism, and more; it'll leave a reader with plenty to ponder.-- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRikki Ducornet's new collection The Deep Zoo is filled with smart and surprising essays that explore our connections to the world through art.-- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-720608\"\u003eRikki Ducornet\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566893763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566893763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO010000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO019000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ART\"\u003eArt\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ART009000\"\u003eCriticism \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of eight 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. 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