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What Do We Know
Poems And Prose Poems
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By Mary Oliver
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Forty poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver
“Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing,” wrote Stanley Kunitz. For the many admirers of Mary Oliver’s dazzling poetry and luminous vision, as well as for those who may be coming to her work for the first time, What Do We Know will be a revelation. These forty poems-of observing, of searching, of pausing, of astonishment, of giving thanks embrace in every sense the natural world, its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes unforgettable images from one hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day to bees that have memorized every stalk and leaf in a field even as she reminds us, after Emerson, that “the invisible and imponderable is the sole fact.”
“Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing,” wrote Stanley Kunitz. For the many admirers of Mary Oliver’s dazzling poetry and luminous vision, as well as for those who may be coming to her work for the first time, What Do We Know will be a revelation. These forty poems-of observing, of searching, of pausing, of astonishment, of giving thanks embrace in every sense the natural world, its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes unforgettable images from one hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day to bees that have memorized every stalk and leaf in a field even as she reminds us, after Emerson, that “the invisible and imponderable is the sole fact.”
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Praise for Mary Oliver
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"A master of spare and evocative imagery."Poetry
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"What good company Mary Oliver is!"Los Angeles Times
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"A great poet....She is amazed but not blinded."Boston Globe
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"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes is unforgettable."Miami Herald
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"Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring."The New York Times
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"Oliver might be accused of an untransformed and reactionary romanticism. One would think that poems about self, nature, death, and ecstasy had run their course in English. Think again."Chicago Tribune
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"Who wouldn't want to be part of Mary Oliver's world?"Appalachian Review
- On Sale
- Mar 27, 2003
- Page Count
- 88 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo
- ISBN-13
- 9780306812064
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