{"product_id":"her-wilderness-will-be-her-manners-paperback","title":"Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Mangold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCynthia Hogue\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003egender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a \"natural body\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn innovative book-length poem that delves into the intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and women naturalists, \u003ci\u003eHer Wilderness Will Be Her Manners \u003c\/i\u003eis an experience of looking for \"Woman's Work\" in American natural history museums. Why, for instance, have the contributions of taxidermist and naturalist Martha Maxwell, the first person to create a \"habitat group\" display in the United States, and Delia Akeley, the wife of the \"father of modern taxidermy,\" been largely erased? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarah Mangold mines language from natural history texts and taxidermy manuals from the 1800s to explore the perception and the reception of women in male-dominated scientific pursuits, as well as the doctrine of nature as pure, unpopulated, and outside historical and political time. A stunning work of visual and textual collage, \u003ci\u003eHer Wilderness Will Be Her Manners\u003c\/i\u003e creates a vibrant textual ecology that utilizes language as landscape while reshaping notions of nature and the natural.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Mangold (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSarah Mangold \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eHousehold Mechanics \u003c\/i\u003e(New Issues, selected by C. D. Wright for the New Issues Prize), \u003ci\u003eElectrical Theories of Femininity\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Radish Books), and \u003ci\u003eGiraffes of Devotion\u003c\/i\u003e (Kore). She is the recipient of a 2013 NEA Poetry Fellowship, as well as support from MacDowell, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Willapa Bay AIR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs, Seattle Arts Commission and Artist Trust. She lives in Edmonds, Washington. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724884054079,"sku":"9780823297702","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/45d9a4c82cff3c1c413afa746d93b9f4.webp?v=1765104263","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/her-wilderness-will-be-her-manners-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}