Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name

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Vicki Hearne, Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name (New York: Knopf, 1986)

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Not exactly literary criticism, Hearne’s work offers an astute challenge to philosophical ideas about animals as only a professional poet, novelist, and animal trainer can. Love or hate what she says, you can’t argue with the facts that her cross-disciplinary fluencies set a standard for future scholarship, and that she was one of the earliest to demonstrate the relevance of literary to animal studies. - SUSAN McHUGH