Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice #Winter2016Recommendation inventive” (Jorie Graham)

inventive” (Jorie Graham)

thinking or even swimming in the world

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She captures the sadness of seas and writes a love poem to a stegosaurus

Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice </b> #Winter2016Recommendation inventive” (Jorie Graham)Poetry Book Society Choice Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petits mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily, and a bestiary of untameable creatures a jaguar girl, a wolverine, a hummingbird as she marries her rapist and gives birth to his children. From