Releasing the Animals

Brooke Biaz Information and Pricing978-1-64317-309-2 ($14.99, paperback); 978-1-64317-310-8 ($9.99, PDF); 978-1-64317-311-5 (EPUB). © 2023 by Parlor Press. 178 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying Just as animal rights are one of the most significant issues of our time, so it must be with the literary imagination. With Releasing the Animals, Brooke Biaz takes the lead in fashioning an unforgettable zoo of reversals where Dr. Doolittle would dare not go. —Stephen Kuusisto, author of Have Dog Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey One of Brooke Biaz’s best jokes in Releasing the Animals is “no pun intended.”  It’s good precisely because it’s repeated, sparingly and at just the right moments, and because if you like linguistic brio and quirks, riddling, wit, and any form of the shaggy dog story, you are in for a rollick of all of it here, where the human animal is wickedly, punnily confused with those other animal