Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice Ian Duhig “is lighter than the learning”

“is lighter than the learning”

– Jonathan Edwards

scant attention was given to the poetry and by the time the meaning of the revolution was grasped it was

" —Reginald Gibbons

gives us many voices

Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice </b> Ian Duhig “is lighter than the learning”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