Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice Ian Duhig scant attention was given to

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

its winds and sand

– Jonathan Edwards

gives us many voices

belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers

Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice </b> Ian Duhig scant attention was given toPoetry 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