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Full-Time Mammal

Full-Time Mammal

Ament, Rennie

Paperback

Series: Iowa Poetry Prize

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 1685970710
ISBN13: 9781685970710
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.51
Language: English

In Full-Time Mammal, perception becomes both subject and site of excavation. Rennie Ament wrestles with what it means to be awake and aware in a disorienting world. How are you supposed to know what you don't know? As ancient defense mechanisms fail, the brain must be retrained, and poetry becomes a divination tool, a game, a portal, a potential weapon, a way through fog.

Survival requires becoming a poet-cum-scientist. Drool becomes data. Ants carry thoughts to rot beneath earth. Animals, plants, and objects are not symbols but companionate presences. This collection feels its way through the failure of imagination at the heart of preordained systems, turning to the natural world not for refuge, but reinvention.

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