Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Ackerman, Diane

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9780679743040: Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems
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ISBN 10: 0679743049 ISBN 13: 9780679743040
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist.

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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.

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Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses , here offers new poems and reprises some from previous collections.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0679743049
ISBN 13 
9780679743040
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272
Rating
  • 3.83 out of 5 stars
    131 ratings by Goodreads

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