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Located birds and fat cats (an urban bestiary)

By Peter Wordsman, art by Aurélie Bernard Wordsman
Turtle point

My introduction to the delightful and growing world of contemporary bestiaries began Odd birds and fat cats, A daughter-daughter research of urban landscapes and the landscape of the mind. Of these five bestiaries, Peter Wordsman and Aurélie Bernard Wordsman's compendium of the creatures may be the structure best in a bestial of the 12th century with full color rendering and short meditations, which are apparently inspired by the interface of Survival Instinct, Mythic Metaphs and the terminated terminal.

A best -selling genre, the medieval bestiary has generally recognized something that the modern world tends: we are part of the natural world and it is part of us in a mysterious network that can suddenly be described as spiritual and scientifically. Starting with a warning from the book of the job, this bestiary reminds us that our other, as human relatives, will speak to us when we have heard ears. What in the fiction of my childhood – the ability to speak to animals was once so easily available Time And PBS Newshour The Essayist Roger Rosenblatt gives “a wonderful example of animal husbandry two artists who learn with joy.”

A bestiary of the anthropozenedited and was introduced by Nicolas Nova and Disnovation.org
Onomatopee

Capture the bizarre but familiar territory of our “postnatural” world, A bestiary of the anthropocene is another compilation that resembles a medieval bestiary in the layout, but is unlike its content: it disturbs the boundaries between our natural and technological systems to create a map of “dark ecology” that was created in the last century. The entries of the book designed as contemporary field manual categorize specimens such as “strangled turtles” or “chicken bones”, which are mapped in black and white illustrations that are similar to pixelated fever dreams.

This bestiary is not for the faint of heart, but on the other hand, there is no real insight into the changes that people have aroused in our environmental, social and technological livelihoods. Based on an art exhibition in which artists, philosophers, anthropologists and others have been commissioned, this book illuminates the tensions that inherent our drive for innovation. It also tries to question the relationship between “natural” and “artificial” when biology and technology are increasingly intertwined.

I have dealt with questions both as an individual and as a member of communities of faith that I was able to struggle with both as an individual and as a member of the faith communities: is it helpful for me to interact with technological advances as part of creation? And how could I approach the creation care differently in view of this? Are there places where crisis can be metabolized in hope?

A bigfoot bestiary and other miracles

By Martin Achatz
Modern History Press

Ah, bigfoot. The preference that I feel for this mythical creature repeats the preference that I feel for all fantastic forest dwellers, including dry shops, gnomes and archetypal crowns. That they exist as symbols that follow our imagination Do Manifesto in material reality. Martin Achatz aims to “capture” these secrets in a collection of poems that invite us to examine the beasts again in our lives and to result in a fountain of the ignorant wish.

Achatz 'tribute to the unknown with playful images and skillful syntax does the things that could otherwise hide in the dark – our shadow itself and their longings. Of the New Year's resolutions by Bigfoot, Achatz writes: “He wants to get / stand in the middle of the forest. Even while I giggled, I felt a little stab of recognition. Bigfoot can take place here. This bestiary could make room for her to do the same.

Disappointing treasures: a bestiary of exceptional endangered creatures

By Katherine Rundell
Doubleday

The measurement of a wide range of endangered animals – from the giraffe to the pangoline to the bat – this lyrical collection of essays is historically informed, deeply committed and full of miraculous facts, which underline the feeling that the truth is foreign as a fiction. Consider Rebecca, the raccoon, which in 1926 roamed the halls of the White House as the companion of President Calvin Coolidge. Seals that learn to speak English and Catcall passers -by; and the etymology of the word Hedgehog (From the Latin Ericius“A spiky military rod that is used for defense – or Seelchins”).

I would not be mentioned that St. Francis of Assisi speaks of the bestiaries, especially when Katherine Rundell's attentive prose and the width of wisdom that gathered on these pages, like a blessing. Your invitation, the past, the present and future life of these “disappeared treasures” to take a closer look at, encourages us to be in her awe and to mourn your loss when we find that we cannot start a new course in the middle of a climate crisis. Standing in miracles is not an escalist; It is to live in an attitude of root and hope in a world that we do not want to see.

Human/animal: a bestiary in essays

By Amie Souza Reilly
Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Mix personal narrative with cultural criticism and linguistic investigation, Human/animal Request the concept of animal behavior and ask our survival instincts. When she moves into a suburban district with her new family, Reilly is threatened by neighbors to intimidate her family to go. The following essays were written in response to this experience and are interrupted with Reilly's own animal sketches, a design selection that gives the human/animal stories that develop, texture and as a visual memory of the borders injured here.

“Boundaries could offer a feeling of security,” writes Reilly, “but they are not harmless. They are actually in damage.” It describes the settler colonialism, which “developed” its city, a memory that the roots of the violation run deeply. Reilly's work is an ambitious undertaking and asks to be slowly addressed, almost as if you can withstand your hand and let you sniff before trying to rub your ears.