Lorine Niedecker: A Poet's Life, Hardcover/Margot Peters

With macabre humor, You, Beast explores the roots and limits of human empathy. Nick Lantz examines our strange, absurd, and often brutal relationship with other animals, from roaches scuttling across the kitchen floor to pigs whose heart valves can replace our own. In poems ranging from found text to villanelles, and from short plays to fables, this lyric collection tracks the troubled ways we define our humanity through mythology, language, politics, art, and food. About the Author Margot Peters is an accomplished and award-winning biographer whose many books include Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Bronte ; The House of Barrymore ; Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne ; May Sarton: A Biography ; and Bernard Shaw and the Actresses . She lives in Lake Mills, Wisconsin.