All animals fall somewhere between feral and domesticated, but what about humans? In her book Feral, poet Janet McAdams asks why we simultaneously fear and long to be wild, why we need to tame ourselves and others. She questions our inherent nature by exploring the imagined worlds of wolf girls, mermaids, feral boys, orphans and moth collectors. Author Ha Jin has said McAdamsยs poems are ยintelligent and insightfulย and ยform a world full of wonder and pain and horror.ย You can decide for yourself what McAdamsยs ratio of wonder to horror is at her reading today. 7 p.m. Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-523-0701 or visit www.brazosbookstore.com. Free.
Mon., Feb. 23, 7 p.m., 2009
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2009.