Jaguar of Sweet Laughter
New and Selected Poems
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, astonish…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-76338-9
- EAN: 9780307763389
- Produktnummer: 15735113
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'878 KB
Über den Autor
Diane Ackerman has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to garnering many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestselling The Zookeeper's Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New York.
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