Beschreibung:
Elena Passarello is an actor, a writer, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books, Let Me Clear My Throat, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance, pop culture, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American, Slate, Creative Nonfiction, and The Iowa Review, among other publications, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
With exuberant wit, Elena Passarello casts her gaze on famous historical animals, crafting an essay collection organized as medieval bestiary.
1. Yuka (Mammuthus primigenius), 39000BP2. The Wolf of Gubbio (Canis lupus), 12203. Ganda (Rhinoceros unicornis), 15154. Sackerson (Ursus arctos arctos), 16015. Jeoffry (Felis catus), 17606. Vogel Staar (Sturnus vulgaris), 17847. Barry (Canis familiaris), 18148. Harriet (Geochelone nigra porteri), 1835-20069. War Pigs (Columba livia domestica), 1870-201410. Jumbo (Loxodonta Africana), 188511. Four Horsemen (Equus caballus), 1901-201212. Mike (Gallus gallus), 194813. Pigasus (Sus scrofa domesticus), 196814. Arabella (Areneus diadematus), 197315. Osama (Crocodylus niloticus), 200316. Cecil (Panthera leo bleyenberghi), 2015