Mary Oliver
Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 4.53 | 10452 Users | 494 Reviews
Identify Books As New and Selected Poems, Volume One
| Original Title: | New and Selected Poems: Volume One |
| ISBN: | 0807068780 (ISBN13: 9780807068786) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Poetry (1992) |
Relation In Favor Of Books New and Selected Poems, Volume One
RIP, Mary Oliver, 1/17/19“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
Point Out Of Books New and Selected Poems, Volume One
| Title | : | New and Selected Poems, Volume One |
| Author | : | Mary Oliver |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2004 by Beacon Press (first published 1992) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Environment. Nature. Fiction |
Rating Out Of Books New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Ratings: 4.53 From 10452 Users | 494 ReviewsJudgment Out Of Books New and Selected Poems, Volume One
4.5 stars review to comeRIP, Mary Oliver, 1/17/19When it's over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
RIP, Mary Oliver, 1/17/19When it's over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
Not often, but now and again there's a momentwhen the heart cries aloud:yes, I am willing to bethat wild darkness, that long, blue body of light.Mary Oliver takes my breath away.
these are poems that teach us how to read (and write) poems. also how to be alive, pay attention, fall in love, find god. it goes in reverse chronological order, so we get to follow the truth as it wiggles all the way back into Oliver's earliest published poems, and waits to expand into every pore of her later work. a brief list of words she uses in her poems that i want to use in my poems: blousesurgelacecowardsorrowsoftvalentinerifequickdeathunstintingfoolishblossoms. i read "in blackwater
i dont know what it is about her work that makes me love her so. i just do.
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 finally finished. I took my time with this one, as it covers poetry from many stages of her life, going back to the 1960s. It's hard to assign a rating, but I can recommend it without reservation.
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