Poetry.
Women's Studies.
Environmental Studies.
Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal.
In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, THE KNOWING ANIMALS, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers, atmospheres, and cosmos.
Here, flowers escape Victorian domestication and ally with girls' green powers of attraction.
Here, the social politeness of motherly domesticity and the raw dangers of adolesc.