{"product_id":"ex-posed-gordon-meade-9781590566763","title":"Ex-Posed: Animal Elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScottish poet Meade's second volume of poems reflecting on the lives of animals as photographed by award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Following on from \u003ci\u003eZoospeak, \u003c\/i\u003e Scottish poet Gordon Meade's reflections on the lives of animals in zoos and aquaria as photographed by Toronto-based award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur and gathered in her book \u003ci\u003eCaptive, \u003cb\u003eEX-Posed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e turns its attention to McArthur's 2020 curated collection \u003ci\u003eHidden: Animals in the Anthropocene.\u003c\/i\u003e Organized into seven sections that cover the experiences of nonhuman animals in factory farms, industrial fisheries, live markets, entertainment, religion, fashion, and amid the climate crisis, each of Meade's poems takes the form of an elegy \"penned\" by the nonhuman animals who, due to many different circumstances, find themselves on death row. As with the source material in \u003ci\u003eHidden\u003c\/i\u003e, the tenor of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEX-Posed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is direct and unapologetic, with each poem attempting to capture the essence of the creatures and the horrific situations in which they find themselves. \"It's my hope,\" says Meade, \"that my words can give voice to the creatures in \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEX-Posed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e so that they might be both seen and, in some small way, also heard.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon Meade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590566769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590566763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lantern Publishing \u0026amp; Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.91w x 0.55d","brand":"Gordon Meade","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44068683219199,"sku":"9781590566763","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6762468-b3cb-4d1f-a928-59e95fb8711d.jpg?v=1685420419","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ex-posed-gordon-meade-9781590566763","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}