by Mary Oliver
I liked these poems but didn't fall head over heels. Oliver is a bit too religious for my tastes, though her natural world is one I recognize and feel at home in. Her eye is keen, her voice assured. A couple of her verses will stay with me.
Yesterday I gorged on my first feast of Mary Oliver's work, racing through three of her short books all in a day. I've started this one with determination to go a bit more slowly, but as I page through what is here, all I can think is oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! More, more, more, more, more!June 20I've fin...
Every poem in here is perfection, but my favorites are , of course, "Morning Poem" and "Wild Geese." Here's "Wild Geese":"You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it...
Mary Oliver still delivers even if her anthologizer tends towards the more nature-y of her poems.
Mary Oliver is an outstanding poet (Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner) who brings such joy and inspiration to her poetry. Her poems touch your heart and give for deep, reflective thoughts and contemplation. Anyone who is a nature lover can relate to her poems and will find them very...
Good poetry collection. Tended towards the nature poetry a bit much for my taste, but these are the collected poems so these are kind of like the greatest hits.
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