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Lucas Jacob's Sympathetic Beasts tunes in to life, to its potential as well as its hazards and warnings, to physical and emotional perils often recognized only too late. At turns intimate, introspective, and darkly humorous, these poems question everyday caution signs even as they lean into vulnerability, grappling with relationships, impermanence, and the many ways the world can end. In this elastic collection, every danger is taken seriously, while no poem takes itself too seriously. There is a smile, or at least a knowing wink, for every foible of the all-too-human speakers in these quietly confident poems.

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The poems in Sympathetic Beasts inspire us to mind the present, but also to stretch beyond it (and behind it and sideways) and delight in the possibilities of volcanoes, glass slippers, a telescope in a closet, and the "ricochet of a doe back into the woods." In "The Dancer," the speaker leads by example when he sits "on the edge of a second-row seat" and marvels not at the theatrical spectacle, but at something more subtle and sacred-"the low cloud of resin / kicked up" by the delicate foot of a ballerina. This book makes one feel more prepared to cherish the world. Lucas Jacob does exactly what we need our poets to do- to sing to us of wonder. -Lauren Berry, winner of the National Poetry Series and C&R Press Award Lucas Jacob has staked out a territory between prose and poetry that is all his own. His poems are often sly narratives, as in the beautiful "Not Going to the Beach" Her long skirt pressed to her thighs by the wind as if by immersion in your thoughts of the water you both watched tugging, in retreat, at seaweed and the edges of misshapen hearts . . . The language, especially in the 12-part prose poem "The Theory of Deccan Volcanism," tugs constantly at the poetic. Lucas Jacob proves himself a masterful poet and storyteller. Read this book. You'll be thoroughly rewarded. -Toby Olson, PEN/Faulkner Award winner In Sympathetic Beasts, Lucas Jacob pays attention to the world, to its beasts made of theory and memory, to the hollow husks we all become. With word-fire, he kindles the husks so as to hear the soft roar of that which refuses to be forgotten: the ghosts of lost names, "a string / trailing away into darkness," our own reflection in glass. Hold yourself close to these poems, read them with care, for in them you'll find "some mimicry" of your beating heart. -Octavio Quintanilla, Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2018-2020)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781736672136
  • Publisher: Next Page Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Next Page Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1736672134
  • Publisher Date: 21 Mar 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr


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