Full-Time Mammal (Iowa Poetry Prize) - Softcover

Ament, Rennie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1685970710 ISBN 13: 9781685970710

Publisher: University of Iowa Press, 2026

Synopsis

In Full-Time Mammal, perception becomes both subject and site of excavation. Rennie Ament wrestles with what it means to be awake and aware in a disorienting world. How are you supposed to know what you don’t know? As ancient defense mechanisms fail, the brain must be retrained, and poetry becomes a divination tool, a game, a portal, a potential weapon, a way through fog.

Survival requires becoming a poet-cum-scientist. Drool becomes data. Ants carry thoughts to rot beneath earth. Animals, plants, and objects are not symbols but companionate presences. This collection feels its way through the failure of imagination at the heart of preordained systems, turning to the natural world not for refuge, but reinvention.
 

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About the Author

Rennie Ament is author of Mechanical Bull. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Cleveland Review of Books, and Washington Square Review. She lives in Owls Head, Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1685970710
• ISBN 13: 9781685970710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70