A fascinating work from an internationally renowned poet

Anne Waldman's new investigative hybrid-poem explores the nuances of inter-species communication and compassion. It draws on animal lore, animal encounters (with grey wolf and manatee), dreams, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and Buddhist ritual to render a text of remarkable sympathy, reciprocity, and power. The poem asks questions as well as urges further engagement with the endangered (including our human selves). Part performance litany, part survival kit, part worried mammalian soundings, Waldman explores, as ever, what it means to inhabit our condition through language and imagination inside a wheel of time. This is the mature work of a philosophical field poet with a shamanic metabolism.

Author: Anne Waldman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 04/07/2009
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780143115212
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/16/2009 pg. 42
Booklist 04/01/2009 pg. 15
Library Journal 06/15/2009 pg. 76

About the Author
Anne Waldman co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she still teaches. Her poetry collections include Iovis I, Iovis II, Fast Speaking Woman, Helping the Dreamer, and Kill or Cure. She is a recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award.