Carrion

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Carrion is written by Wes Jamison and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1636281176 (ISBN 10) and 9781636281179 (ISBN 13).

"Teach me to bury this. Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravens--of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others--function in Jamison's essay collection: they are tools to interpret and make meaning of their world, rent as it is between the rural and urban, the romantic and abusive, where language is both surfeit and dearth. This collection sees mythical ravens murmur alongside the actual bone and viscera of crows, starlings, and pigeons in disarming explorations of desire and destruction, the body and creation. Carrion is an ambitiously structured collection that honors the literary forebears at its center while lamenting our inability to communicate anything--love, need, hope--except in metaphors"--