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Diane Ackerman on self expression

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I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that “honor all life/wherever and in whatever form/it may deal.

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Diane Ackerman
2025
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Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir

Back in 1977 Diane Ackerman wrote to Albert Mitchell to ask if she might visit his cattle ranch in New Mexico to experience what branding season was like. She asked not to be pampered and to be allowed to ride with the cowboys and live the lifestyle authentically. He agreed and a long visit ensued.

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Diane Ackerman
2025
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DIane Ackerman: Introducing Paul’s 100 Names

In October 2010, I visited authors Diane Ackerman and Paul West at their upstate New York home, where we spent two days talking about Diane's forthcoming book. Several early readers had called it her best to date; without question, it’s the most personal, affecting work of her career.

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Diane Ackerman
2011
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Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire

At the heart of Origami Bridges is the delicate relationship of trust between analyst and patient, a relationship that grows out of the emotional give-and-take of the psychoanalytic process.

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Diane Ackerman
2003
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Romanticizing the Reader

The best thing about a book tour is meeting your imagined readers, staring into their lamplit faces, hearing a little about their lives and, for a slender moment anyway, feeling the reciprocity of your trade.

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Diane Ackerman
2015
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