The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell
by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell targets the art and necessity of the fairy tale by exploring, with language, its vital energy. With undertones of love and loss, myth and inescapable reality, this poetry collection offers a visceral experience on every page - truly the fairy tales we need to tell.
Here's what's being said about The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell:
"Elisabeth McKetta taps fairy tales and, presto, they transform themselves into living things that reach out and tug at us, reminding us of the exquisite fragility in 'once upon a time.' Hers is a Proustian adventure that reinvents the fairy tale for us, infusing it with the drama of times past."
— Maria Tatar, author of The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
"In this excellent collection, Elisabeth McKetta grapples with the bedrock basics of being human - or perhaps more accurately, as she puts it, of being 'unsteadily human.' All of the imperatives of flesh - love, lust, the making and breaking of hearts, marriage, children, and all the rest - get full play in these wise, unflinching poems."
— Ben Fountain, author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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Product Details
Chapbook: 44 pages / Poetry
Published: April 2013
ISBN-10: 0-9886077-1-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-9886077-1-2
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