Mary Oliver
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178 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.' So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature....
13) House of light
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viii, 80 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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A collection of poetry written by Mary Oliver, exploring luminosity, along with love and death, the natural laws of the world, and other topics.
15) Blue pastures
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122 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"With consummate craftsmanship, [the author] has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude."--
17) Thirst: poems
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viii 71 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 71 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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viii, 55 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Poetry of nature. In Fall she writes: "the black oaks / fling their bronze fruit / into all the pockets of earth / pock pock / they knock against the thresholds / the roof the sidewalk / fill the eaves / the bottom line / of the old gold song / of the almost finished year."
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80 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of her classic poems, and two essays, all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved and disobedient little dog, Percy, who appears and even speaks in thirteen poems, the closing section of this volume.