# Kind: Poems - Hardcover

by **Gretchen Primack** (Author), **Tim Seibles** (Foreword by)

**A collection of poems and images that reflect our complex relationship with other-than-human animals**

_Kind_ is the kind of poetry book that makes you think differently about our world and the beings that inhabit it. Primack explores all facets of our lives with other beings--the beauty, the tragedy, and the absurdity that surrounds her existence. _Kind_ cuts to one's emotional core to make us think and feel.

"If it is true that one knows oneself best by observing how one treats others then this book of poems by Gretchen Primack is essential reading. Read these poems for the truth they tell about our relationship to and treatment of the creatures we take to be our property; read this book and ponder its many questions, for example 'Who are the beasts?' and 'What can I do?'"--**Kazim Ali**

"How often does one get starstruck by a poet? When I read Gretchen Primack's animal poems, I was starstruck instantly. How could someone crystallize my own feelings about animals and humanity so beautifully, so powerfully, and so poignantly? Primack seems only capable of writing poetry so damn good that you will find yourself wanting to read it aloud to everyone you know who shares your compassion for animals...and to everyone you know who doesn't."--**Marisa Miller Wolfson**

"Gretchen Primack knows that animals 'cannot forget hell for even a day, and so she\] cannot either.' She is infused with an abnormal amount of empathy, which fills her heart with kindness, awe, and hope. She wants to live 'somewhere else, somewhere kind, ' so she spends her time shifting into that place where every being matters, and she takes us with her."--**Sharon Gannon**

### Author Biography

**Gretchen Primack** is a poet and educator living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison education programs (mostly college) since 2005.  
She's the author of two poetry collections (apart from _Kind_): _Visiting Days_ (Willow Books) and _Doris' Red Spaces_ (Mayapple Press), as well as a chapbook, _The Slow Creaking of Planets_ (Finishing Line 2007). She co-wrote The _Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals_ with Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary co-founder Jenny Brown (Penguin Avery 2012). Her poetry publication credits include _The Paris Review_, _Prairie Schooner_, _Ploughshares_, _FIELD_, _Poet Lore_, _The Massachusetts Review_, _The Antioch Review_, _New Orleans Review_, _Rhino_, _Tampa Review_, and many others journals and anthologies. Gretchen is a passionate advocate for the rights and welfare of non-human animals and lives with several of them, along with a beloved human named Gus.

**Number of Pages:** 98

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN

**Publication Date:** March 02, 2021

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