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Animals: Prose Poems on Sentiency, Decency and Indecency
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807383
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: May 12 2025
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The loftiest goal of any poet is to engender empathy. Animals: prose poems on sentiency, decency, and indecency by Dr. Anita Nahal attempts this through a direct approach. The reader is not asked to relinquish their omnivore habits, nor adopt them, but to consider the roles played in our lives by animals and whether it is our responsibility, alongside taking care of the planet, to treat animals with dignity and respect. This book is an educated modern woman's heartfelt offering. Dr. Nahal's compassion and observation of animal existence and what we can improve are both necessary and urgent. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, you're sure to consider this more closely as these powerful poems reveal their truth.
-Candice Louisa Daquin, Senior Editor, Indie Blu(e) Publishing
Dr. Anita Nahal's Animals is a moving and potent prose poetry collection, rich in empathy and compassion, exposing the thoughtless sentiency of many humans who fail to fully, if at all, contemplate the inner lives and feelings of other species, the so-called non-sentients, with whom we share this planet Earth. With compelling storytelling and rich rhythmic language, Nahal urges us to stop pedestalizing ourselves and consider: What is the heart if the heart can't feel? Animals is a vitally salient collection for these often-inhumane times.
-John Burroughs, 2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate
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