<div><p>"A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."—<i>The New York Times</i></P><p>"Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around."—<i>The Nation</i></P><p><i>The Deep Zoo</i> is a record of Rikki Ducornet's reading of the world, a gathering of alchemies where the unknown has become visible through the medium of art, be they Borges's tigers and Cortazar's lions, desire, mystery, or the grotesque.</P><p><b>Rikki Ducornet</b> has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was honored twice by the Lannan Foundation.<br></div>