GLOWING ANIMALS
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Visceral, playful, and lyrical, Glowing Animals inhabits a place that is both fairytale and startlingly familiar. From grocery stores to outer space, robots to clairvoyants, marriage to foxes, these poems explore love, motherhood, family, and the siren-songs we sing in this strange, unruly world.
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"Glowing Animals reads like tried wisdom, a reminder that we are, in every moment, experiencing ourselves above all. Amanda deftly introduces this wonder to the void, before returning it to us as a third, surprising thing."
- Jon Chaiim McConnell, author of thrum
"Hartzell reminds us that mundanity only exists if we choose it, that every ordinary moment can (and should) be cracked wide open to reveal what’s inside, be it a fantasy, a horror, or something unsettlingly familiar."
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OCT 2023