Bestiary

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Over time, the memorable creatures that were central to the bestiary tradition pervaded the visual vocabulary of the medieval world, becoming some of the most common symbols in art of the period.

from a half-petrified tree trunk (note the polarity: half-living and half-dead of a tree) sired many children. Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters—half human and half something else. in many ways the novel feels like a spiral – told primarily through the daughter’s attempts to understand her mother, her tayal grandmother and the aunts she doesn’t know, but also the wildness inside of her and ben, the girl she loves. Young queer love, family secrets, and a girl who grows a tiger tale, all told by a language obsessive?

The aim of the stories and illuminations was not to impart factual information or visual accuracy but rather to convey the wonder, variety, or hidden meaning found in the natural world. Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A] beautifully written book to make you laugh, squirm and – perhaps most importantly – appreciate how lucky we are to not have to live inside an anus. In one source, the author explains how fables and bestiaries are closely linked to one another as “each chapter of a bestiary, each fable in a collection, has a text and has a meaning. Hers is a dizzyingly imaginative, sharp-witted voice queering migration, adolescence, and questions of family and belonging in totally new and unexpected ways. Packed with incredible facts and jaw-dropping insights into wildlife ecology, anatomy and behaviour, it is a genuine delight.

The (controversial) national flag of Taiwan is described as “blue sky, white sun, red ground everywhere” (青天白日滿地紅).

It is a story that spans three generations of women, vicious and unbreakable cycles and ties of life, death, and everything in between. Following the Physiologus, Saint Isidore of Seville (Book XII of the Etymologiae) and Saint Ambrose expanded the religious message with reference to passages from the Bible and the Septuagint. They plateaued in the air, horizontal like kites, and flapped in the wind before riding it upward and out, blade-arching through the air. Every line of this sensuous, magical-realist marvel—about multiple generations of Taiwanese-American women in Arkansas whose lives are imbued with cultural and familial myth—is utterly alive.It is marketed as a mythological, magical realist novel following a Taiwanese-American family’s queer history with a particular focus on its women. Pick up a multimedia player free of charge in the Museum Entrance Hall or use your own smartphone on our free GettyLink Wi-Fi. K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. The synopsis had me so excited to read Bestiary, but unfortunately this ended up being a case of not gelling with the writing style. They draw on disciplines ranging from music, art history, translation, Classical poetry and French poetry, and are nurtured by approaches including phenomenology, cultural studies, sound studies, and critical animal studies.