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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

New and Selected Poems

by Diane Ackerman
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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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  • Release date

    July 27, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9780307763389

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780307763389
      • File size: 1880 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 26, 1993
      Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses , here offers new poems and reprises some from previous collections.

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  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English

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