Song of the Taxidermist explores our simultaneous fascination and unease with the body’s independence, its resistance to the self’s colonizing imperative. “Song of the Taxidermist” I and II were based on archival research and personal interviews. In this suite of poems, Haller draws on the stories of famous taxidermied specimens such as the celebrated French giraffe, Zarafe, and the Alaskan sled dog, Togo.
Song of the Taxidermist
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