TY - BOOK ID - 78339272 TI - Animal purpose : poems PY - 2016 SN - 0821445480 9780821445488 9780821421987 0821421980 PB - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78339272 AB - In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. ER -