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"'Hope' is the thing with feathers . . ."

By Emily Dickinson
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Hope is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul . . .

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I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

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.

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Diane Ackerman
2024
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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

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.

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Diane Ackerman
1993
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

What is it about humans that causes us to defy genetic programming and so often live in hope, despite all that’s terrible about existence? Diane Ackerman shares what she has learned about human survival from working at a crisis hotline.

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Diane Ackerman
1998
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