Gentle and Fierce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Vanessa, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals.

Human-animal relationships.

Animals and civilization.

City dwellers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Giramondo Publishing Company, 2021.

Summary:

Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world of animals, and the way their presence has shaped the author's life story and her sense of self. Having spent her life in city environments, Vanessa Berry's experiences with animals have largely been through encounters with urban creatures, representations of animals in art and the media, and as decorative ornaments or kitsch. The essays suggest that these mediated encounters, rather than being mundane or removed from nature, provide meaningful connections with the animal world, at a time in which it is threatened by climate change and environmental destruction.The subjects of Berry's singular bestiary include butterflies, a glass fish, a stuffed Kodiak bear, the rabbits on a Japanese island, the sinking horse from The NeverEnding Story, snails and flies, a porcelain otter, Lassie, dream spiders and cats, and wallabies on the Isle of Man. Berry responds to each with the attentiveness and empathy that is the hallmark of her writing. The essays are accompanied by her illustrations, which testify to her background as an artist and zine maker.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Compound Eye

The Butterfly Effect

Animal Chronicle I

Mink Coat

Glass Fish

Rabbit Island

Frank the Bear

The Fly

The Sinking Horse

The Word of a Snail

The Ceramic Zoo

Wildpark

A Spider in My Cup

Perec's Cat

Lassie Come Home

Animal Chronicle II

The Curragh

Fly Away Bird

Junk Bug

Gentle and Fierce

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the authors.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781925818802

1925818802

OCLC:

1260341141