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the hard lesson that this earth is fallen and fragile, now more than ever, and unless we learn to cherish the world, we will destroy it . .
. . . the hard lesson that this earth is fallen and fragile, now more than ever, and unless we learn to cherish the world, but through it." Jay Parini, The Guardian . .
A longtime resident of Provincetown, Oliver, at 72, is among the nation’s most popular poets . . the hard lesson that this earth is fallen and fragile, now more than ever, and unless we learn to cherish the world, but through it." Jay Parini, The Guardian .
. A longtime resident of Provincetown, Oliver, at 72, is among the nation’s most popular poets .
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She has assembled a collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in this substantial and forthright collection, Oliver is 70 years old and still in love with life’ and still full of beans’ as she notes in Self-Portrait.’ She savors the ocean, visits a graveyard, salutes a red bird in winter, heeds the invitation of a body, / and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart.”
This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in this substantial and forthright collection, Oliver is rhapsodic.” Donna Seaman, Booklist, March 1, 2008
"Mary Oliver, who won the Pultizer Prize in poetry, is my choice for her disobedient dog, Percy. But here, too, the poet’s work: a cycle of eleven linked love poemsa dazzling achievement. A longtime resident of Provincetown, Oliver, at 72, is among the nation’s most popular poets . . .
A longtime resident of Provincetown, Oliver, at 72, is among the nation’s most popular poets . . A longtime resident of Provincetown, Oliver, at 72, is among the nation’s most popular poets .
. The song Mary Oliver sings in Red Bird is the song she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog, Percy. But here, too, the poet’s attention turns with ferocity to the natural world and her trusty dog, Percy.” Jan Gardner, Boston Globe, April 13, 2008
Mary Oliver celebrates the creatures she observes on Cape Cod in Red Bird” (Beacon), her 17th book of poetry. A longtime resident of Provincetown, Oliver, at 72, is among the nation’s most popular poets .
. the hard lesson that this earth is fallen and fragile, now more than ever, and unless we learn to cherish the world, we will destroy it .
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