Red Bird
This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver’s work, includes an entirely new direction for the poet’s work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems—a dazzling achievement. As in all of Mary Oliver’s work, the pages overflow with her keen observation of the...
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This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver’s work, includes an entirely new direction for the poet’s work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems—a dazzling achievement. As in all of Mary Oliver’s work, the pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog, Percy.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780807068922 (0807068926)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Adult,
Environment,
Nature,
Poetry,
Spirituality,
Glbt,
Queer,
Lesbian
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...
"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention.Be astonished. Tell about it."
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