Book Trailer: Song of the Taxidermist, by Aurian Haller

Song of the Taxidermist explores our simultaneous fascination and unease with the body’s independence, its resistance to the self's colonizing imperative. The poems, "Song of the Taxidermist" I and II were based on archival research and personal interviews. In this suite of poems, Haller draws on the stories of famous taxidermied specimens such as the celebrated French giraffe, Zarafe, and the Alaskan sled dog, Togo. AUTHOR Aurian Haller is an award-winning poet and singer-songwriter. He grew up in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies and now lives in Quebec City. BOOK TRAILER Audio by Aurian Haller, who reads his poem, "Relay, Niemeyer's Taxidermy, 2005. Zebra legs in taxidermy" Images from Stock.XCHNG and still from the short film "Mechanism/Organism," 2006, by Eduardo Menz Video by Lindsay Maynard Goose Lane Editions

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 1m 44s Date Found: Sat, Mar 05 2011 3:38 AM Category: Entertainment Date Produced: Fri, Mar 04 2011 8:55 AM View Count: 0