we animals

A visual poetry collection of nontraditional multimodal compositions on the subjects of love desire pain pleasure and gender identity. This book is in no way a guide on how to behave when youre in love but at the core these are love poems. Loving freely requires a lack of constraint. We want to be bound but we want the bindings to be the ones we choose.In we animals Nicole Oquendo doesnt just evoke fur and claw and quickened heart: they inhabit. Here the deep intimacy built between so-called predator and prey (self and other self and self) tangles and untangles in an endless knot of relating. Here a narrative of emergence arcs towards lyrical decomposition: when the end comes i will bend you like a star / and kiss you sticky the curves of you animal / until we the last island drown. Here sounds forms and images pulse together with bloods electricity. These are words to read aloud to wrestle with to be cornered by to hold. -- D. Allen A Bony Framework for the Tangible Universe (The Operating System 2019)Dear Intrepid Reader: This book is alive. How do I know this? Because many things have tried to quiet it and none have been successful. If you are lucky enough to be holding it in your hands at this moment considering it turn to page 50. I dare you to walk away from it now. we animals is unlike anything you have ever experienced. Note that I do not say read because: One there is more at work in these pages than poetry art and magic and Two because you dont read this book - it reads you. Are you ready to experience it? I hope that you are. Where magic horror identity and reclamation intersect you will find we animals. From the experimental oracular beauty of cassandras eyes and the rasping apocalypse of rhh we animals guides the reader to the terrible beauty and terrifying precipice of myth folk tale and the narratives of self that we all construct - only to dismantle those ideas page by page reconstructing them into something new something fierce - something with teeth. -- Allie Marini author of This Apiary Here Comes Hell and Southern Cryptozoology: A Field Guide to Beasts of the Southern Wild