The Zoo at Night

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book The Zoo at Night by Susan Gubernat, UNP - Nebraska
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Author: Susan Gubernat ISBN: 9781496202758
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska Publication: September 1, 2017
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Language: English
Author: Susan Gubernat
ISBN: 9781496202758
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Publication: September 1, 2017
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat’s The Zoo at Night reflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as “night thoughts” resembling nocturnes, in which “a bit of light leaks in.”

Both experimental and classic, Gubernat’s poems combine formal and free verse elements. A (mostly) unrhymed sonnet sequence seeks to recall the world of a pre-digital childhood when physical objects—tactile, mechanical—took on totemic import and magical significance. Other poems echo the Rilkean principle that poetry can be empathetic by looking outward at the “thingness” of the world. 

In these works of love and longing, Gubernat enters through the doors of craft and exits with feeling. 

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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat’s The Zoo at Night reflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as “night thoughts” resembling nocturnes, in which “a bit of light leaks in.”

Both experimental and classic, Gubernat’s poems combine formal and free verse elements. A (mostly) unrhymed sonnet sequence seeks to recall the world of a pre-digital childhood when physical objects—tactile, mechanical—took on totemic import and magical significance. Other poems echo the Rilkean principle that poetry can be empathetic by looking outward at the “thingness” of the world. 

In these works of love and longing, Gubernat enters through the doors of craft and exits with feeling. 

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