The Deep Zoo, Ducornet Rikki

Rikki Ducornets new collectionTheDeepZoois filled with smart and surprising essays that explore our connections totheworld through art.Largehearted Boy
TheDeepZoo acts as a kind of foundational text, a lens to view her work andtheother essays through. . . Subversive at heart and acutely perceptive. Numero Cinq
Ducornet moves between these facets of human experience with otherworldly grace, creating surprising parallels and associations. . .TheDeepZoois a testament to her acrobatic intelligence and unflinching curiosity. Ducornet not only truststhesubconscious, she celebrates and interrogates it.The Heavy Feather
What struck me most about this collection, and what I am confident will pull me back to it again, is Ducornet s obvious passion for life. She is . . . attentive, fearless, and curious. And for a hundred pages we get to see how it feels to exist like that, what it s like to think critically and still be open totheworld. Cleaver Magazine
Rikki Ducornet is imagination s emissary to this mundane world. Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books on the Park
This book is like the secret at the heart of the world; Ive put other books aside.Anne Germanacos, author of Tribute
Praise for Rikki Ducornet
A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.The New York Times
Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.The Nation
Ducornetsurrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at timesis one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously.Jeff Vandermeer
A unique combination of the practical and fabulous, a woman equally alive to the possibilities of joy and the necessity of political responsibility, a creaturea la Shakespeares Cleopatraof infinite variety, Ducornet is a writer of extraordinary power, in whose books rigor and imagination (her watchwords) perform with the grace and daring of high-wire acrobats.Laura Mullen, BOMB Magazine
The perversity, decadence, and even the depravity that Ducornet renders here feel explosively fresh because their sources are thought and emotion, not the body, and finally theres some pathos too. The Boston Globe
Ducornets skill at drawing unexpected connections, and her ability to move between outrage and meditativeness, are gripping to behold.Tobias Carroll, Star Tribune
This collection of essays meditates on art, mysticism, and more; itll leave a reader with plenty to ponder. Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Rikki Ducornets new collection The Deep Zoo is filled with smart and surprising essays that explore our connections to the world through art. Largehearted Boy