The collection opens with a poem fittingly titled “A Herd of Elephants Is Sometimes Called a Memory.” Other animals inhabit the collection—flamingoes, hyenas, chickens—but memory is the real wild beating heart of these poems, and the speaker is “the daughter / of remembering and hope.The collection opens with a poem fittingly titled “A Herd of Elephants Is Sometimes Called a Memory.” Other animals inhabit the collection—flamingoes, hyenas, chickens—but memory is the real wild beating heart of these poems, and the speaker is “the daughter / of remembering and hope.
- Animal Nocturne
