Enter the Raccoon

Poetry. ENTER THE RACCOON documents a love affair between a woman and a raccoon. They are a couple that loves without preconceptions, whose being together eschews all limits until their beliefs in the self are put to the test. Their story unfolds each time one surrenders to the other in a sometimes melancholic and cruel, other times joyful, even ecstatic embrace. "It is a human-sized raccoon that greets you as you plunge into the subconscious wiring of Beatriz Hausner, accessed through this prosthetic book machine, this 'mechanical extremity' that bids you to ENTER THE RACCOON. This is a book you will wish you could dream. Its cumulative prose lines extend through the essay, the anecdote, the fable, into the realm of fancy, fantasy, and fornicating (transpecies) wish fulfillment. It arrives at poetry and dives through that soft mirror to reveal the ancient machine working the illusion in the kingdom of happiness. This is the machine that knows you, and whispers things to you about your magic body that you can only imagine. It speaks of love as a thing made at the origin of language only to explode in radiant embrace."Gregory Betts

Beatriz Hausner lives in Toronto. She is a literary translator of some renown, with more than twenty works of literature published to date. She was President of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada, as well as one of the founders of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She is recognized for her tireless advocacy in the of international literature in English translation. She has a previous poetry collection, The Wardrobe Mistress, as well as several chapbooks of poetry.