Feral

by Janet McAdams

How to understand the voice lost between forest and city, which cries, "I am not wild, I am not human." Why fear wildness? What lies in the need to tame ourselves and others? These are the questions raised in Janet McAdams' "Feral", the eagerly anticipated second collection by the American Book Award winning author of "The Island of Lost Luggage".

Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Fairy Tales

92 pages, Paperback

First published February 20, 2007

Reviews

[Portal in the Pages · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely stunning.

[N.P. Hunt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A generally quite powerful collection of poetry. McAdams incorporates a lot of harsh natural imagery, which I absolutely loved and gives the book an almost fairytale/folklore quality in parts. I felt that the second half of the book was much more compelling and stronger than the first, but there were some very good poems throughout. I would recommend to anyone who likes modern freeverse poetry with a lot of natural and animal imagery.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

“In the night of black jade, we
were more than meat, more
than a handful of carbon.

We were cell and stone and field, the sky:
Stars pulled down from their wandering.”

—From poem “Earth My Body Is Trying To Remember” ix