Rumored Animals

Called an “impressive debut” by Publishers Weekly, Quinn Latimer’s first collection casts a wide lyrical net. Limning and
mining a series of evocative, disparate landscapes—the Southern California coast, the high desert of Far West Texas, New
York’s brick canyons, and finally the Mittel-European reaches of Germany and Switzerland—Latimer tasks these places with
the procedures of the critical mind and the movements of the sensual body. Her contemporary lyric poems move from starkly
personal elegies to essayistic examinations of the lives and works of writers and artists including Ingeborg Bachmann, Donald
Judd, Agnes Martin, Robert Walser, Francesca Woodman, and Virginia Woolf. Through both bodies of poems runs the
central image of the animal—its idea, its fact—and a fervent, feverish anthropomorphism that at once haunts and illuminates
the audacious writing at hand.