"Mammal is a collection of Richard Loranger's poetry and flash prose that is grounded in his poetics of reexamination and the consistent questioning of the nature of most everything. Starting with a delve into his experience of fluid gender, identity, and self, the work expands to explore protean perspectives of culture, institutions, sex, relationships, self-reflection, and American life, carried by his distinctive and gleeful language-play and stylistics that push the boundaries of connotation and embrace a plurality of meaning"--