Any Dumb Animal is about being different and learning to cope with that difference in spite of everything and everyone, about seeking out ways to touch and be touched . . . which is all any of us really need to keep living, keep creating, keep the faith with our fellow humans. Hines, too, aches for that touching in his life and, most rewardingly for us, in these poems.
Author Bio: A. E. Hines grew up in rural North Carolina and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. He has been published widely in poetry anthologies and literary journals.
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