![]() ![]() ![]() Like the tourists Hawthorne depicts, chuckling at the power of matriarchy emerging in the peripheries of male curation, readers of this collection may have "eyes already able to see the disjunction" formed through stories made out of a past that will not be silenced (98). The past created by Curatrix involves fragments from antiquity to the current day a heady mix of the imaginary and the artifact. When memory fails, Wittig exhorts, invent your way beyond slavery. Hawthorne’s epigraph from Monique Wittig indicates, not unexpectedly, the deeply political intent of this work. ![]() Curatrix leads readers through a matriarchal past, brought alive by the wolfish Diana and the lamb-like Agnese, into a party of all time attended by a host of baying baa-barian re-sisters. In Lupa and Lamb Hawthorne’s exploration of different possibilities in human/nonhuman relations is hosted by Curatrix, the Director of the Musæum Matricum. Lupa and Lamb, Susan Hawthorne’s latest pithy collection of poetry, continues her work to break down the separations between humans and nonhumans, with the lyrical savvy that marks her previous collection, Cow. ![]()
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