For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleWow, what a beautiful collection of poems. I picked this up on a whim from the Recently Returned cart at the library. I've been trying to read more poetry lately and was drawn in my the simple title and lovely cover art. Then I started reading it. Oh m...
I've heard a great number of Mary Oliver's poems throughout my years in creative writing programs. I have never heard one I didn't not love. I was enthusiastic to finally read a complete volume of her work and I picked Why I Wake Early for no reason whatsoever. It was just the first to grab my atten...
Mary Oliver really is a magnificent poet - her images of nature conjure up perfect visuals of whatever natural scene she's describing. I do tend to find her poetry very intellectual as opposed to emotional (Charles Bukowski; Pablo Neruda - two of my favourite poets whose work is molten with emotions...
While the front book flap says this is a collection of love poems, I felt that the first set, "The Journey" were more about nature. I liked this group the most, and Meadowlark is my favorite poem in this book, with Storage coming second.Oliver uses words that I find awkward. Even Meadowlark ends wit...
Ama really liked Mary Oliver and I inherited several of Oliver's books from her. This is the first book of Oliver's that I've read. The poems are about nature and human nature and with the exception of the two about her dog and the one about India (unfortunately the last poem in the book) I enjoyed ...
I feel like I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. Mary Oliver has a way with words,but most of her poems seemed empty to me. I also had a hard time taking some of the metaphors seriously,like the talking animals and the black snakes. There are some gems here though,the poem "For I W...
My first exposure to Mary Oliver's poetry. I enjoyed the poems, especially "The Moth, The Mountains, The Rivers","Hum, Hum" and "The Man Who Has Many Answers." Will be reading more of her poems in future.
Mary Oliver is a gifted poet. Her use of imagery and self-reflection is powerful, even for those who aren't religious or inclined to love nature. Death itself is a music... I would notgive my life for a thousand of yours. "Straight Talk from Fox" I have dreamedof accomplishment. I have fedamb...
There are writers who are clearly talented and intelligent, with something to say, but their writing is so clinical that it's difficult to stay engaged. For me, Mary Oliver is one of those writers. I found her poetry to be far more arresting than her essays, which tended to be long-winded and full o...
American philosopher and Harvard professor Stanley Cavell claims "Emerson and Thoreau... are the founding philosophers of America" and comparable to Plato. Before reading this I tackled Thoreau. Emerson was his mentor, and they were both considered part of the Transcendental circle in mid-Century Am...
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