Clues from the Animal Kingdom (American Poets Continuum, 167)

In his fifth collection of poems, Christopher Kennedy sifts through the detritus of the past to uncover the memories, images, and symbols that shape an individual’s consciousness. Looking to animals and their instincts for inspiration, drawing shape from the poet’s Irish Catholic working-class roots, these prose poems transcend grief and depression by seeking humanity’s place in the natural world.

• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
• The Locals: A Novel
• WHEREAS: Poems
• The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel
• The Friend: A Novel
• Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (American Poets Continuum)
• Ennui Prophet (American Poets Continuum)
• Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House (First Book)
• The Distance Home: A Novel
• I Know Your Kind: Poems (National Poetry Series)