Your Kingdom / Eleni Sikelianos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sikelianos, Eleni, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Poetry.

Animals.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press, [2023]

Summary:

"One of our foremost practitioners of ecopoetic exploration, Eleni Sikelianos, bends time and space in this ode to our animal origins. From the cellular to celestial, Your Kingdom is an inquisitive and energetic call to "let the body feel all its own evolution inside." Our limbs grew from the shoulders of salamanders. Hidden motives bind us to cuckoos and caterpillars. Our faces form biological maps while our organs trace the shapes of our animal ancestors. As she studies the wild roots of our past, present, and future, Sikelianos forms a poetic ecosystem, delighting in the complexity of our natural lineage in the face of environmental precarity. With wonder and verve, Your Kingdom reconnects us through language to our deeply animal origins-to the cellular essence from which all life emerged"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

First of All

She takes notes

"Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of phylogeny" (Notes)

Earth Story [In the beginning]

In the Museum of Comparative Anatomy

In the Great Hall of Bones

lacrimal bone

Not Verb, but Vertigo

Wrong

Tooth to Bite

the tangled bank

daytime light through a barrel of trees

Real World Feeds

Your Kingdom

Polishing the Animal Mirror Bioluminescence

in the book called

Animal Light

How Some Other Animals Do Colonies

[a thronging]

Bestiaries on the Lamb

Unmane

Frigatebird Backwards is not Agate, but Language Has us Here

Field, Forest, Cloth, Road

polishing my animal mirror

Last night, I wore a bronze broad-winged hawk foot

Walking Bear Creek in snOw

who sees in sound

To Do: Write Cephalopod Poem

All the Living Living Together (Reevolutionize) Chemical Kisses

Volcanoes

will heart

The Promises of Air

[crow stars: familie corvidae]

Once Water's Heart-The hand The land

Husband Heart Dream

Deevolutionize

Picture of, not a

Sparta through a Hole in the Past (Correspondences)

You do

Delicately positioned mirrors track the squeezing

I had some k/t/re/e/ys

In the Theater of the In/Compatible

la joie S

Sfakiá to Loutró

more or less november

Aστυνομία Nοσοϰομείο

allow us what's hidden

Glossary

A Few More Notes

Images and Credits

Gratitude

Funder Acknowledgments

The Publisher's Circle of Coffee House Press

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781566896603

1566896606

OCLC:

1348482432