I Praise My Destroyer by Diane Ackerman

I Praise My Destroyer by Diane Ackerman

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.

Ackerman, Diane: -

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including A Natural History of the Senses -- a book beloved by readers all over the worldand the volumes Deep Play, A Slender Thread, The Rarest of the Rare, A Natural History of Love, The Moon by Whale Light, and a memoir on flying, On Extended Wings.

Her poetry has been collected into six volumes, among them Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems and, most recently, Praise My Destroyer.

Ms. Ackerman has received many prizes and awards, including the John Burroughs Nature Award and the Lavan Poetry Prize. A Visiting Professor at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, she was the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor at the University of Richmond. Ms. Ackerman also has the unusual distinction of having had a molecule named after her -- dianeackerone. She lives in upstate New York.

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ISBN 13	9780679771340
ISBN 10	0679771344
Title	I Praise My Destroyer
Author	Diane Ackerman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-08-22
Number of pages	128
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