I Praise My Destroyer

Poems

Diane Ackerman

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Random House USA Inc
15 August 2000

Poetry

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.

By: Diane Ackerman
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 133g
ISBN: 9780679771340
ISBN 10: 0679771344
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 15 August 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diane Ackerman lives in upstate New york.

Reviews for I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

Brilliant . . . Ackerman expresses her signature love for the world in all its seething glory. . . . Her sensuality is still in full force. -- Booklist [These poems are] full of physical participation in the world, human involvement, and (as one might expect of this scholar of the senses) an eloquent eye. --Richard Wilbur Vivid, playful, abundant, these poems constitute a directory of colors, an assembly of weathers, waters, creatures, and a bold, brash, invincible vote of confidence. --Anthony Hecht [Ackerman's] poems express a sense of sheer joy in physical existence, which she explores in language that has its own intense life. The book is a pure pleasure. --Louis Simpson