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Jaguar Of Sweet Laughter:New and Selected Poems
[Paperback - 1993]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780679743040 | Pages: 272
Shipping Weight: .215 | Dimensions: 5.21 x .65 x 7.94 inches

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.

Diane Ackermanhas been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestsellersThe Zookeeper’s WifeandA Natural History of the Senses.The Zookeeper’s Wife, a little known true story of WWII, became aNew York Timesbestseller, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as, "a groundbreaking work of nonfiction." A movie ofThe Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, releases in theaters March 31st, 2017 from Focus Features.She lives with her husband Paul West in Ithaca, New York.

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