He excitedly unearths, as Lucy excitedly unearths a plant (‘Running Away’), the games she likes to play, her sexuality & attraction to human males, her nocturnal ‘queer racket’ (‘Intrusion’) & ‘chaos and din’ (‘Warm Welcome’), her relationships with her adoptive family & other humans, & her responses to Maurice’s experiments. Ben’s language, technique & verve are captivating. Lucy also learns American Sign Language-over one hundred and forty signs & phrases. She learns to cook, to mix drinks (she favours gin & tonic) & to sit at the family dinner table. She sleeps in a crib, is toilet trained to a degree, has ‘papers / and Golden Books’ (‘Playgirl’), a pet cat & ‘a Woolfian / room of her own’ (‘Renovations’). Lucy is raised in their home as if she were their human daughter-or, as Ben writes, ‘ sometimes-subject / daughter’ (‘Playgirl’). Maurice is a psychotherapist & an academic at the university, Jane a social worker. Some of Regulator’s themes-family, coming of age, sexuality, animals, the natural world, science, space-are present in Airplane Baby Banana Blanket, a poetic biography of ‘amber eye’ Lucy (‘One-Off’), a chimpanzee born in 1966 in Florida, stolen from her phencyclidine-drugged mother, then adopted through the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for Primate Studies by Maurice & Jane Temerlin. Soon after, Ben & I started emailing each other & quickly became friends.Ī few years later Ben’s terrific debut collection Regulator was published.
What still echoes most emphatically about that writing is its wit, inventiveness & economy of language. I first read Ben’s poetry about ten years ago, in Mascara Literary Review. I’m thrilled to be launching Ben’s intriguingly-titled second poetry collection. Before we begin I’d like to acknowledge the Darumbal people, the traditional custodians of the land I’m zooming from, & pay my respects to Elders past, present & emerging. Welcome to the launch of Benjamin Dodds’s Airplane Baby Banana Blanket. Unless the "zoo" in question is actually your family or friends dressed in a menagerie animal costumes.Airplane Baby Banana Blanket by Benjamin Dodds, Recent Work Press 2020, was virtually launched by Stuart Barnes on 28th October 2020. Winning a costume competition is a good use of your might, but staging a zoo break is not.
You and your baby can get up to all kinds of mischief while you're wearing this cute outfit! No one can resist an adorable monkey holding an even more adorable banana, so please wield your power responsibly. The matching banana hood fastens under your child's chin. The front of the carrier is decorated with black trim and yellow fabric "peel" strips. Secure the yellow carrier cover around your child's waist with the attached elastic strap. A monkey tail made of stuffed brown fabric attaches to your clothing with an included safety pin. It fastens under the chin and is topped with two same-fabric monkey ears. You'd be bananas not to want to try this fun Monkey and Banana Carrier Costume! The adult outfit features a monkey hood made of brown polyester fabric. It'll make you happier than a monkey with a banana! Product Details You see first laughs, first steps, and so many more memories being made. Just like a real safari, though, being a parent gives you a front-row seat to some pretty incredible experiences. Being a parent is a wild ride! At times, it can feel like an out-of-control safari complete with wild animals and lots and lots of messes.
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