Teaching Notes for Of Flesh and Fur:
Use in the classroom to discuss: fatherhood; parenthood; trickster figures; coyotes; animal personae; cloning; B-movie horror; sci-fi; genre play and formation; family dynamics; literature of the mountainous West; natural environments; semi-natural environments; technological environments; encounters with the abject; babies.

Pairs well with The Hand Implements, Reports, The Movie My Murderer Makes.

Of Flesh and Fur by duncan b. barlow

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When even the inner parts of a heart squall with want, calling out a compulsion to procreate, to propagate, to continue the family line with a child, a child—then a child must be had, by any means necessary. But in duncan b. barlow’s Of Flesh and Fur, what was once so wanted twists towards its own toothy hunger, smacking counter slabs and shrieking out the wrong words for a father's love. Squirrels scatter. The coyotes are closing in. There is only so much meat.
duncan b. barlow is the author of The City, Awake (Stalking Horse 2017) and Super Cell Anemia (2007). His music has appeared on over twenty-five records and his work has appeared in: The Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, Banango Street, Matter Press, The Apeiron Review, Calamari Press, Masque and Spectacle, and Meat for Tea. He founded Astrophil Press and is currently the Managing Editor at South Dakota Review. duncan lives with his cat, Monkey, in South Dakota where he teaches at University of South Dakota. www.duncanbbarlow.com.
Of Flesh and Fur is an ancient fable that comes from the not too distant future. Its fevered coyotes worry the bones of fathers who don't have sons, of those who are abandoned and abandon in turn. There's only hunger in these pages, fantasies of manliness that make thin feed. Barlow's spare prose spares us nothing. Read or be eaten. — Joanna Rucco, author of Dan, Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, and Man's Companions.

Part post-modern creation myth, part eerie feral parable, duncan b. barlow’s Of Flesh and Fur is a viscerally stunning and unnerving novelette rendered in corkscrew-tight lines that silver-spiral their way deep into the raw meat of the reader’s psyche. In terse, hallucinatory, meditative chapters in which an accountant attempts to care for a blood-hungry baby cloned from his own genetic material, the story meditates upon fatherhood, melancholia, loneliness, and monstrosity with deft language and razor-sharp imagery. This primal howl of a story is disturbingly tender in all the best possible ways.

—Lee Ann Roripaugh, Author of Dandarians

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