How to draw a rhinoceros : poems / Kate Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutherland, Kate, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhinoceroses--Poetry.

Rhinoceroses.

Human-animal relationships--Poetry.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] : BookThug, 2016.

Summary:

How to Draw a Rhinoceros, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the history of European and North American encounters with the animal--from the elephant-rhinoceros battles staged by monarchs in the Middle Ages; the rhinomania that took hold in response to the European travels of Clara the 'Dutch' Rhinoceros in the mid-1700s; the menageries and circuses of the Victorian era; the exploits of celebrated twentieth-century hunters like Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway; and the trade in rhinoceros horn artefacts that thrives online today. Along the way, it explores themes of colonialism, animal welfare, and conservation, combining Robert Kroetschian documentary poetics with the meticulous research and environmental passion of Elizabeth Kolbert, to successfully examine the centuries-long path of the rhinoceros that's brought it to the brink of global extinction. Readers of contemporary poetry, as well as those interested in natural history, animal welfare, and conservation, and people who have followed Sutherland's scholarly and literary careers, will relish the rich detail and odd tales of historical rhinoceroses and the people who have kept, shown, and traded in them, as depicted using a range of poetic techniques that only a critical eye like Sutherland's could deliver.

Contents:

Intro

a natural history of the rhinoceros

how to draw a rhinoceros

dürer's rhinoceros

elephant v. rhinoceros

according to the apothecary

rhinoceros odyssey

magrath the giant and the rhinoceros

the wild beast men

transactions of the london zoologicalsociety's menagerie, 1834-1875

o'brien's four shows

great family of giants

by any other name

the fun of hunting them

officials said

going, going, gone

conservation

clara's favourite tipple

clara incognito

clara the collector

clara delights in her status as muse

clara inspires the scribes

clara canary girl

clara is ready for her close-up

clara joins the secretarial pool

clara goes to law school

clara in space

notes on sources.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77166-261-1

1-77166-262-X