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.
“This sprawling book-length poem from an American countercultural
giant takes its form and concerns from a Tibetan Buddhist ritual
and from the poet’s close encounter with the endangered aquatic
mammal of her title . . . Waldman’s energetic odes and dialogues,
part memory and part dream, may learn from the manatee what it is
to be human; they also try to understand the nonhuman, from
seaweeds and seashells to mammals . . . Exuberant . . . Waldman
figures the gap between mind and body as the gap between air and
sea, between the manatee’s world and our own.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Waldman brings her wild, oracular voice to the environmental
questions that currently bedevil us . . . Waldman uses both
rhetorical and visual devices to demand our attention, but her work
is predominantly incantatory . . . One of Waldman’s strongest
books.”
—Booklist
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