Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners - (Poets Out Loud) by Sarah Mangold (Paperback)

Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners is an innovative book-length poem that delves into the intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and women naturalists.

This stunning work of visual and textual collage creates a vibrant textual ecology that utilizes language as landscape while reshaping notions of nature and the natural.

With language from natural history texts and taxidermy manuals from the 1800s, Mangold mines the perception and reception of women in male-dominated scientific pursuits, as well as the doctrine of nature as pure, unpopulated, and outside historical and political time.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in feminist poetics, natural history, or simply great literature.