Jaguar of Sweet Laughter
New and Selected Poems
$28.09
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
27 July 1993
Summary
In A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediacy 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.
Ackerman’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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679743040 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679743049 |
| Author: | Diane Ackerman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 1993 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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“Her best poems keep bursting off the prescribed limits of the page…in the same way that great paintings burst their frames… Ackerman has energy, wit, courage, and passion… All of her is in each poem, and this ‘all’ reveals a woman of sensitivity, restraint, ingenuity, and passionate daring.”
– Hudson Review
“I know enough to know when I’m in the presence of a brilliant mind. Her acrobatic poems are full of fact and exuberance.”
– Maxine Kumin
“The best lyric poet now writing in the United States.”
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About The Author
Diane Ackerman
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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