Poetry. A radiant matrix of intertextuality, ANIMALS OF DAWN, in holding a vast array of precedent texts--as disparate as Hamlet, Un Coup de Dés, and Basho's famous frog haiku--in constellated suspension, creates an aubade-as- web-of-wonders in which we animals wake from our sleep to the marvels of language as the impossibly strong, invisibly powerful net that sustains us all--texts, sentient beings, texts as sentient beings and vice versa--in electric, vibrating relation.--Maria Damon