A luminous tour through the poems of one of nature's most brilliant and devoted observers
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done?
Few modern poets are as beloved or as quoted as Mary Oliver. Spanning the major decades of her long career, this collection showcases Oliver's remarkable lyrical powers and her reverential attention to the natural world. Her poetry sees life everywhere and asks what to do with it -- how can we find our place among such beauty, such pain?
Populated by wading birds, early snowfalls and swaying cornfields, her reflections are the record of a life spent walking alone in the wild. These timeless poems meet and touch their reader in any season of life, brightened by Oliver's gift for amazement, shadowed by her constant awareness of harshness and death. Her words teach us to live with our eyes open wider.
A luminous tour through the poems of one of nature's most brilliant and devoted observers
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done?
Few modern poets are as beloved or as quoted as Mary Oliver. Spanning the major decades of her long career, this collection showcases Oliver's remarkable lyrical powers and her reverential attention to the natural world. Her poetry sees life everywhere and asks what to do with it -- how can we find our place among such beauty, such pain?
Populated by wading birds, early snowfalls and swaying cornfields, her reflections are the record of a life spent walking alone in the wild. These timeless poems meet and touch their reader in any season of life, brightened by Oliver's gift for amazement, shadowed by her constant awareness of harshness and death. Her words teach us to live with our eyes open wider.
To mark the centenary of Donald Davies birth, Carcanet publishes a new Selected Poems drawn from the full trajectory of his poetry and showing his skills as lyric, satirical, elegiac, epistolary and...
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