absolute animal

Rachel DeWoskin is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: Banshee; Someday We Will Fly; Blind; Big Girl Small; and Repeat After Me; and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing; along with the poetry collection Two Menus, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Her essays, poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Sunday Times Magazine of London, Condé Nast Traveler, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, Agni, Ploughshares, New Delta Review, New Orleans Review, Seneca Review, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is on the core creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty in Jewish and East Asian Studies. DeWoskin also serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).  

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attention
the animal question
sestina for the snake in a man-made lake
ways to love and leave you 
social hour vole  
when we say they    
hunt 
unseasonable    
chemical peel  
taxidermy   
heathkit tv 1980
my dad’s socially distant heart surgery 
his meds      
arrhythmia     
feel it if    
these days i keep falling        
back
estrangement
poem on returning (by he zhizhang)
on the eve of government exams to secretary zhang (by zhu qingyu)
climbing white stork tower (by wang zhihuan)     
halfway (by li bai)   
drinking alone under the moon (by li bai)    
snapshots of what’s called for   
some girls    
dressing    
let me be
vanity
a surgeon sawed me open, sewed me up
double body, hot lasagna    
taunting the turkey vultures with love        
tiny staples    
fear    
chance, chicago    
sunset/sonnet    
airplane landscape, 1992, true story
landing
dream view from above
your death
tenacity
acknowledgments