{"product_id":"i-praise-my-destroyer-poems-9780679771340","title":"I Praise My Destroyer: Poems","description":"In her first new book of poetry since \u003cb\u003eJaguar of Sweet Laughter\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImbued 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 \u003cb\u003eI Praise My Destroyer\u003c\/b\u003e affirm Ackerman's place as one of the most enchanting poets writing today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiane Ackerman lives in upstate New york.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327032824082,"sku":"9780679771340","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c10566e8-9daa-43c9-bf10-266473d4b541.jpg?v=1727708601","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-praise-my-destroyer-poems-9780679771340","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}