Author: Chris Mann; Adrian Craig, Julia Skeen
Signed by the Poet Chris Mann
Publisher: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press (2006)
ISBN-10: 1869141040
ISBN-13: 9781869141042
Condition: Very Good. Covers are a little shelf rubbed, with edgewear. Else internally bright and clean, a well bound copy.
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 85
Dimensions: 19 x 27.7 x 0.8 cm
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by Chris Mann; Adrian Craig, Julia Skeen (Signed by the Poet Chris Mann)
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The poems in this book evoke encounters with a number of living creatures, primarily in southern Africa. They range from the aardvark to the zebra, and include dragonflies, jellyfish, kudu, seahorses, and warthogs. The text invites the reader to consider animals not so much as beasts or feasts, pets or threats, but as our chromosome cousins.

The book embodies recent discoveries in the fields of evolutionary biology, paleontology, and astronomy. These discoveries, when taken together, reveal how each animal is part of a lifeline that stretches back billions of years and is inseparable from the genesis of the cosmos as a whole.