Watchful

Witness to the late and sorrowful pact between predator and prey, spectator and species, Molly Bendall's fifth book beckons the reader into the enigma of animal relation. "What's left?" she asks. The answer is past remembering, attuned to extinction. Forsaking the names of creatures, Bendall returns like a sleepwalker to a painted habitat of swamps and savannahs, of captivity and display. At once playful and melancholy in its sifting of ritual discretion and shame, Watchful brings every sense, every measure, to bear on the blood mirror of the human.

Author: Molly Bendall
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 10/04/2016
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781632430212
ISBN10: 1632430215
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Animals & Nature
- Poetry | Women Authors

About the Author
MOLLY BENDALL is the author of four previous collections of poetry, After Estrangement, Dark Summer, Ariadne's Island, and Under the Quick. She also has co-authored with the poet Gail Wronsky Bling & Fringe from What Books. Her poems and trans- lations have appeared in many anthologies, including American Hybrid and Poems for the Millenium. She has won the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry, The Lynda Hull Award from Denver Quarterly, and two Pushcart Prizes. Currently she teaches at the University of Southern California.