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I Praise My Destroyer: Poems
1998, ISBN: 0679448780, Preisentwicklung...
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[EAN: 9780679448785], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Random House], Poetry|American, Book has a small amount of wear visible on the binding, cover, pages.
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I Praise My Destroyer - Poems
1998, ISBN: 0679448780, Preisentwicklung...
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[EAN: 9780679448785], [PU: Random House, NY], LITERATURE AMERICAN POETRY 0679448780, Poetry|American, "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."- front dust jacket flap. 'In her first book of poems since the splendid Jaguar of Sweet Laughter (1991), naturalist Ackerman expresses her signature love for the world in all its seething glory, but there is new strength here, an edge freshly honed. Yet her sensuality is still in full force as she writes voluptuously about apricots, water, and sky and wears poetic forms like silk dresses that sway and cling in perfect accord to the stride of her lines. Her metaphors are piquant and her humor mischievous, but still there is an intimation of struggle, and that infuses these wholly original poems with an air of valor, vitality, and wisdom. She writes--with wit, warmth, and gratitude--about the "timed talk" of therapy, the fire and darkness of love, and, strikingly, of friendships between women. If one poem had to stand for her ardent awareness, poetic adeptness, erudition, profound insights into nature, and all-embracing spirit, it would be "When the Deep Purple Falls," a thousand-word sentence about a day-long bicycle ride around a lake, a brilliant meditation on the cycle of time, life and death, and the perpetual turnings of the heart.' - Donna Seaman, Booklist. Blurbs by Anthony Hecht, Pattiann Rogers, Louis Simpson, Richard Wilbur. x, 118 pp. Remainder mark. As new, unread condition.
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