Manatee-humanity
By: Anne Waldman.
Series: Penguin poets
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780143115212
Description: 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.