Jaguar of Sweet Laughter by Ackerman, Diane -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Contents New Poems

Intensive Care We Are Listening The Dark Night of the Hummingbird White Flag On Looking into Sylvia Plath’s Copy of Goethe’s Faust Halley’s Comet Hawaiian Storms St. Louis Botanical Gardens Dinner at the Waldorf Night Letter to Loren Eiseley

Where the Sun Dines — Poems of Amazonia

I In the Rain Forest II Coboclo III At Brazil, Where the Sun Dines IV Beija-Flor

The White Lantern —Poems of Antarctica

I Antarctica Considers Her Explorers II Antarctica Offers Scott Her Lantern III Song of the Current at Cape Horn IV King Penguins V At Belingshausen, the Russian Base, Antarctica VI When Handling Desolata

Tales from a Sonnetarium

I Oasis II How like a Virus Entering a Cell III Kismet IV Starlight Weaver V The Line VI The White Hypnosis Still Life A Pilot’s Pay Song of the Trilobite Lament of the Banyan Tree Poem in Winter Campus Cemetery Letter to Wallace Stevens Visiting Professors Air Show in Barbados The Manure Gatherers At Walt Whitman’s Birthplace, In the Green Purse of the Yard This Loose Red Change Lady Canute Opening the Locket Grand Canyon Letter of Retainer Come Picnic on Mars Soft Lens Pumping Iron High-Altitude Knitting Elegy for Challenger Confession Portrait Without Pose Nuclear Winter French Frigate Shoals Allies

Selected Poems

From the Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral (1976)

from Earth

When You Take Me from This Good Rich Soil Full Moon

Diffraction Cape Canaveral The Other Night (Comet Kohoutek)

from Mercury from Jupiter from Venus from Neptune

Mars Saturn Pluto

From Wife of Light (1978)

Mother New House Ode to an Appaloosa Stallion Song of π Critical Mass George Sand, Addressing Her Mind, at 50 Quixote Life Sentence Madame Bovary to Her Lover Mystic Communion of Clocks Anne Donne to Her Husband Sweep Me Through Your Many-Chambered Heart A.R. Ammons amid the Fungi Entreaty Ithaca Without You The Elements Driving Through Farm Country at Sunset I Should Have Trekked with Scott to Antarctica Period Piece Where Paul Was Born Addendum Curtains of Goldenrod Of Course the Earth Won’t Stop Trelawny Parish, Jamaica Ode to the Alien

From Lady Faustus (1983)

A Fine, a Private Place Amphibians Whale Songs Night Flight Climbing Out Space Shuttle Lindbergh Freeing the Evergreens In the Silks A Red Carillon Whose Berries Are Bells Spiders Sleeping Beauty of the Bronx Silhouette Ice Dragons In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment To Villa-Lobos in Winter Zoë Patrick Ewing Takes a Foul Shot Lady Faustus Language Lab In a Philosopher’s Cottage River Light Lines Written in a Pittsburgh Skyscraper The Rumored Conversation with Oneself Continues in Pittsburgh Soccer at the Meadowlands Golden Section, Giants Stadium

From Reverse Thunder (1988)