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 Petit's 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 heartbreaking trauma, there emerge luxuriant and tender portraits of a woman battling for survival, in poems that echo the plight of others under duress, and of our companion species. Petit does not flinch from the violence but offers hope by celebrating the beauty of the wild, whether in the mind or the natural world. Poetry Book Society Choice.
- 112 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Mama Amazonica
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Table of contents
- Cover
- DESCRIPTION
- TITLE PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- Mama Amazonica
- Jaguar Girl
- Rainforest in the Sleep Room
- Macaw Mummy
- Taxidermy
- Love Charm
- My Mother’s Wedding Dress
- Chaplet
- Something Blue
- Bestiarum
- Bandaged Bambi
- Love Charm II
- He Gives Her a Nightdress Sheer as a Mist-Net
- Giant Jewel Beetle Ear-Pendants
- Miscarriage
- Serpentarium
- El Hombre Caimán
- Precious Goliath Beetle
- Buck
- The Birth of Jaguar Girl
- My Amazonian Birth
- Hummingbird Birth
- L’Assistance Publique
- Harpy Eagle Mama
- Baby Caimans
- Musica Mundana
- Limed Blossoms
- My Mother’s Dressing Gown
- Square de la Place Dupleix
- Her Harpy Eagle Claws
- Madre de Dios
- Fossa
- Anaconda
- Black Caiman with Butterflies
- Extrapyramidal Side Effects
- Terribilis
- Jaguar Mama
- Bottled Macaw
- Waterlily-Jaguar
- Scarlet Macaws
- Río Tambopata
- Uirapuru and the Tangarana Tree
- Corpse Flower
- My Mother’s Love
- When My Mother Became a Boa
- Mama Ferox
- The Hospital Haircut
- Zarafa the First Giraffe in France
- Great Grey Owl
- Ocelot
- Kapok
- Ah Puch
- Snow Leopard Woman
- In the Giraffe House
- Mama Macaw
- Rebirth of the Rainforest
- My Wolverine
- The Hummingbird Whisperer
- Mama Oceana
- Musician-Wren
- King Vultures
- The Hummingbird Nest
- The Jaguar
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT
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