| Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems Contributor(s): Ackerman, Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679743049 ISBN-13: 9780679743040 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1993 Annotation: Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 92050642 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.24" W x 8.06" (0.5 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |