Large Animals Poetry keeping life in forward motion

keeping life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables to his dying partner

covered in sequins and scales

and Dad is far away on business

This definitive edition

Large Animals Poetry keeping life in forward motionDaring, witty, and strange, the twelve stories in Large Animals confront what it means to have a body. Jess Arndt's often unnamed narrators battle with inhabiting a form that makes them feel both deeply uncomfortable and detached, constantly challenging the limits of gender and reality as they try to connect with other people and with themselves. These are stories that rebel against accepted ideas of human identity and present a new normal that is as