The Deep Zoo - Softcover

Ducornet, Rikki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566893763 ISBN 13: 9781566893763

Publisher: Coffee House Press, 2015

Synopsis

Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy―the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.

Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep Zoo. Her essays take us from the glorious bestiary of Aloys Zötl to Abu Ghraib, from the tree of life to Sade’s Silling Castle, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to virtual reality. Says Ducornet, “To write with the irresistible ink of tigers and the uncaging of our own Deep Zoo, we need to be attentive and fearless―above all very curious―and all at the same time.”

About this title

About the Author

The author of nine novels as well as collections of short stories, essays, and poems, Rikki Ducornet has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, honored twice by the Lannan Foundation, and the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature. Widely published abroad, Ducornet is also a painter who exhibits internationally. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566893763
• ISBN 13: 9781566893763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165