num_pages: 96
description: Lives of the Animals takes us to that place where the boundaries between predator and prey, the observer and the observed, merge, reverse, become re-imagined. We find ourselves inside a story of death and life, witness to acts of survival so primal they seem less instinctive than passionate. And it is passion that most informs these poems: the bond between lovers, between parent and child, between humans and other animals, both wild and domestic, that populate our shared world of hunger and need.
language: English
title: Lives of the Animals
titlecomplete: Lives of the Animals
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 77
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Poets' Prize
publisher: Penguin Books