How to Draw a Rhinoceros - Softcover

Kate Sutherland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771662603 ISBN 13: 9781771662604

Publisher: Book*hug Press, 2016

Synopsis

How to Draw a Rhinoceros, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the history of European and North American encounters with the animal--from the elephant-rhinoceros battles staged by monarchs in the Middle Ages; the rhinomania that took hold in response to the European travels of Clara the 'Dutch' Rhinoceros in the mid-1700s; the menageries and circuses of the Victorian era; the exploits of celebrated twentieth-century hunters like Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway; and the trade in rhinoceros horn artefacts that thrives online today. Along the way, it explores themes of colonialism, animal welfare, and conservation, combining Robert Kroetschian documentary poetics with the meticulous research and environmental passion of Elizabeth Kolbert, to successfully examine the centuries-long path of the rhinoceros that's brought it to the brink of global extinction. Readers of contemporary poetry, as well as those interested in natural history, animal welfare, and conservation, and people who have followed Sutherland's scholarly and literary careers, will relish the rich detail and odd tales of historical rhinoceroses and the people who have kept, shown, and traded in them, as depicted using a range of poetic techniques that only a critical eye like Sutherland's could deliver.

About this title

About the Author

KATE SUTHERLAND was born in Scotland, immigrated to Canada as a child, and grew up in Saskatoon. She studied first at the University of Saskatchewan, then at Harvard Law School. Her short story collection, Summer Reading, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Best First Book. She is the author of The Bones Are There and How to Draw a Rhinoceros, which was shortlisted for a Creative Writing Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She lives in Toronto where she is a professor and conducts research in the fields of Tort Law, Feminist Legal Theory, and Law and Literature at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771662603
• ISBN 13: 9781771662604
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84