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Patriarchy conflates women with nature while erasing their names from the history of science. Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners corrects patriarchy on both counts, naming and celebrating women naturalists who worked in the field and in museums. Mangold brings these adventurous and resourceful women out of the acknowledgment pages of others' books and into the foreground of her own, highlighting in the process how science, in the guise of objectivity, dresses the natural world in conspicuous artifice. Using verbal and visual collage to evoke and trouble the tropes of collecting, preserving, classifying, and displaying specimens, Mangold fashions out of a trove of found fragments a fabulous feminist Wunderkammer, 'proof of woman's work' that does not disavow 'its feminine identity.' -- Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days Stunning. Sarah Mangold's poetry gives voice to the care, beauty and expertise these naturalists devoted to their craft-an attention to detail historically overlooked, but thankfully gaining wider appreciation within the words of Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners. -- Emily Graslie, former Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Chicago Field Museum, creator of Brain Scoop & host of PBS Pre-historic Road Trip Sarah Mangold's poetry of preservation is kin to Susan Howe's archival work. It is both haunted and haunting. -- Rae Armantrout, author of Conjure

Stunning. Sarah Mangold's poetry gives voice to the care, beauty and expertise these naturalists devoted to their craft--an attention to detail historically overlooked, but thankfully gaining wider appreciation within the words of Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners.---Emily Graslie, former Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Chicago Field Museum, creator of Brain Scoop & host of PBS Pre-historic Road Trip, Patriarchy conflates women with nature while erasing their names from the history of science. Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners corrects patriarchy on both counts, naming and celebrating women naturalists who worked in the field and in museums. Mangold brings these adventurous and resourceful women out of the acknowledgment pages of others' books and into the foreground of her own, highlighting in the process how science, in the guise of objectivity, dresses the natural world in conspicuous artifice. Using verbal and visual collage to evoke and trouble the tropes of collecting, preserving, classifying, and displaying specimens, Mangold fashions out of a trove of found fragments a fabulous feminist Wunderkammer, 'proof of woman's work' that does not disavow 'its feminine identity.'---Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days, Sarah Mangold's poetry of preservation is kin to Susan Howe's archival work. It is both haunted and haunting.---Rae Armantrout, author of Conjure,

Patriarchy conflates women with nature while erasing their names from the history of science. Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners corrects patriarchy on both counts, naming and celebrating women naturalists who worked in the field and in museums. Mangold brings these adventurous and resourceful women out of the acknowledgment pages of others' books and into the foreground of her own, highlighting in the process how science, in the guise of objectivity, dresses the natural world in conspicuous artifice. Using verbal and visual collage to evoke and trouble the tropes of collecting, preserving, classifying, and displaying specimens, Mangold fashions out of a trove of found fragments a fabulous feminist Wunderkammer, 'proof of woman's work' that does not disavow 'its feminine identity.' -- Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days Stunning. Sarah Mangold's poetry gives voice to the care, beauty and expertise these naturalists devoted to their craft-an attention to detail historically overlooked, but thankfully gaining wider appreciation within the words of Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners. -- Emily Graslie, former Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Chicago Field Museum, creator of Brian Scoop & host of PBS Pre-historic Road Trip Sarah Mangold's poetry of preservation is kin to Susan Howe's archival work. It is both haunted and haunting. -- Rae Armantrout, author of Conjure

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Sarah Mangold (Author) Sarah Mangold is the author of the poetry collections Household Mechanics (New Issues, selected by C. D. Wright for the New Issues Prize), Electrical Theories of Femininity (Black Radish Books), and Giraffes of Devotion (Kore). She is the recipient of a 2013 NEA Poetry Fellowship, as well as support from MacDowell, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Willapa Bay AIR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs, Seattle Arts Commission and Artist Trust. She lives in Edmonds, Washington.

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