Jaguar of Sweet Laughter

New and Selected Poems

Diane Ackerman

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Random House USA Inc
27 July 1993

Poetry

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.

By: Diane Ackerman
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 223g
ISBN: 9780679743040
ISBN 10: 0679743049
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 27 July 1993
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 bestsellingThe Zookeeper's WifeandA Natural History of the Senses. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

Reviews for Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

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