Description
A powerful collection of poems that explores the uneasy boundary between human consciousness and the primal energies of the natural world. Drawing on images of animals, captivity, violence, and instinct, the poems repeatedly challenge modern humanity’s attempts to observe and control what it cannot fully understand. At its center is the compelling perspective of a wolf in a London zoo, whose confinement becomes a meditation on freedom, perception, and the distance between civilization and wilderness. Intensely physical and searching in style, the work reflects a distinctive phase in its author’s enduring engagement with the nonhuman cosmos.
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paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 1989
55 pages
ISBN: 0571141676
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Details
First Published
1989
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Wolfwatching by Ted Hughes.