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Any cultural shift in how we conceive of other animals requires a shift in how we read and write about them. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Sentience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e seeks to help catalyze this shift by ushering in a new kind of animal poetry, what editors Ashley Capps and Allison Titus dub \"kinpoetics.\" Whereas animals in Western poetry have disproportionately functioned as symbols, the poems in this anthology foreground a meaningful awareness of animal sentience and subjectivity, depicting other animals as individuals with dynamic selfhood, personalities, and emotional lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stylistically wide-ranging, the poets featured here, among them Wendell Berry, Lucille Clifton, E. E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, Ross Gay, and Margaret Atwood, apply scrutinous lyrical attention to the animal experience in such surprising and illuminating ways that the reader can't avoid an earnest reexamination of what humans owe our more-than-human kin. 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