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I Praise My Destroyer:Poems
[Paperback - 2000]
diane ackerman
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: Literary Collections
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780679771340 | Pages: 128
Shipping Weight: .113 | Dimensions: 5.22 x .37 x 8 inches

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In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that "honor all life/wherever and in whatever form/it may deal."

Imbued with ravishing imagery, these exuberant and lyrical explorations of aging, longing, and death demonstrate Ackerman's full engagement with every aspect of life's process. Ackerman muses on the confines of therapy sessions, where she intersects "twice a week/in a painstaking hide-and-seek/making do with half-light, half-speak"; relishes the succulent pleasure of eating an apricot, with its "gush of taboo sweetness"; and imagines the "unupholstered voice, a life in outline" in her stunning elegy to C. S. Lewis. Whimsical, organic, and wise, the poems in I Praise My Destroyer affirm Ackerman's place as one of the most enchanting poets writing today.

About the Author

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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