Mammal

Another tour de force book of poetry and flash prose from the multi-genre talent, Richard Loranger.

MAMMAL is a collection of Richard Loranger's poetry and flash prose that is grounded in his poetics of reexamination and the consistent questioning of the nature of most everything. Starting with a delve into his experience of fluid gender, identity, and self, the work expands to explore protean perspectives of culture, institutions, sex, relationships, self-reflection, and...
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Another tour de force book of poetry and flash prose from the multi-genre talent, Richard Loranger.

MAMMAL is a collection of Richard Loranger's poetry and flash prose that is grounded in his poetics of reexamination and the consistent questioning of the nature of most everything. Starting with a delve into his experience of fluid gender, identity, and self, the work expands to explore protean perspectives of culture, institutions, sex, relationships, self-reflection, and American life, carried by his distinctive and gleeful language-play and stylistics that push the boundaries of connotation and embrace a plurality of meaning.

"I avidly look forward to each new Richard Loranger book. Loranger has a very distinctive poetic voice, and it is on full view in MAMMAL. Equally persuasive on the subject of butterflies, pronouns, or insomnia, Loranger takes us all on a wild ride through levels of understanding. 'As long as we think we're our bodies / we're fucked,' Richard offers, and it would be ungrateful to disagree."--Kim Shuck, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita

Poetry, LGBTQ+ Studies.