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Jaguar of sweet laughter: new & selected poems

By Diane , Ackerman

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
ISBN
9780307763389, 0307763382
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1886636 bytes)
Edition
1st Vintage books ed
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
FICTION--General;American poetry;Electronic books;

Description

In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist. Ackermans's Olympian vision records and transforms landscapes from Amazonia to Antarctica, while her imaginative empathy penetrates the otherness of hummingbirds, deer, and trilobites. But even as they draw readers into the wild heart of nature, Ackerman's poems are indelible reminders of what it is to be a human being -- the "jaguar of sweet laughter" that, according to Mayan mythology, astonished the world because it was the first animal to speak. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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