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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems

By Diane Ackerman

By Diane Ackerman

By Diane Ackerman

By Diane Ackerman

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Category: Poetry

Category: Poetry

Paperback $15.00

Jul 27, 1993 | ISBN 9780679743040

Ebook $10.99

Jul 27, 2011 | ISBN 9780307763389

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    About Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

    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.

    About Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

    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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    Also by Diane Ackerman

    I Praise My Destroyer
    Deep Play
    A Slender Thread
    The Rarest of the Rare
    A Natural History of Love
    See all books by Diane Ackerman

    About 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… More about Diane Ackerman

    About 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… More about Diane Ackerman

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 27, 1993 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679743040

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 27, 2011 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780307763389

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    Praise

    "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."

    — Review

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