Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee Poems by Jan Conn - Amazonian Whites (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)
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A man named Albino warned Margaret Mee against exploring the Rio Demini -he apparently had many indigenous people in dept-service there and didn't want witnesses of their criminal treatment.
Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon between 1956 and 1988), the poems are infused with wonder at a discovered new world of extraordinary richness, which is also an old world still governed by myth, and the ecological interdependence of everything: plant, animal, human, god; the living and the dead.
Sources for this collection include Mee's journals, sketchbooks, and paintings. Jan Conn is a scientist by education and occupation, but biologist meets poet in the deep dive into the soul of the rainforest.
She creates the Amazonian world from inside, from her own ardent research travels there, as well as through the sharp eyes of Margaret Mee.
Preface by Sir Peter Crane, Director of the Royal Botanic (Kew) Gardens, London, England
"... a book of marvels from the tropical zone of poetry." - Roo Borson
Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography.
Cover art: Cattleya violacea, 1981. Margaret Mee. Rio Cuini, Amazonas state, Brazil. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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