In the Company of Animals

In the Company of Animals
By Ken Lauter

This is one man’s story (told through more than 100 poems and 12 prose pieces) of his relationship with animals across the 80 years of his life, a meditation on humanity’s horrible history of animal abuse, and an urgent plea for mercy and justice for animals in today’s world. Poet Ken Lauter holds that nonhuman animals must be fully liberated if our own species is to have a sustainable future or a sane social and spiritual life. He doesn’t preach that message but rather embodies it in the wide variety of work in this book. For even those who still eat animals, the voyage through these pages will prove memorable—and perhaps life-changing.