Animal Elegy in Ron Rash’s “In the Valley” (2020)

This paper argues that Ron Rash’s 2020 return to his 2009 bestseller, Serena, and its eponymous character’s destructive frenzy operates as a pretext for him deal, in own poetic way, with the devastating consequences of such ruthless exploitative behaviors their lethal contribution sixth extinction. shows “In Valley” partakes genre poetry Focusing on diverse ways which valley’s inexorable emptying is represented, it regards an animal elegy poetically represents extinction numerous species.