{"product_id":"manatee-humanity-paperback","title":"Manatee\/Humanity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating work from an internationally renowned poet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e co-founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she still teaches. Her poetry collections include \u003cb\u003eIovis I, Iovis II, Fast Speaking Woman, Helping the Dreamer\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eKill or Cure\u003c\/b\u003e. She is a recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42154195845255,"sku":"9780143115212","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ff297eb5a218c6053e213c482998b485.webp?v=1733227310","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/manatee-humanity-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}