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I am slowly reading this and savoring the experience, although like her other collections of poems, I will return to this again and again. Mary Oliver delivers... again.
Each poem is tightly packed with so many layers of meaning, a compass of the human experiences of nature, love and loss. I wouldn't call this lyrical, yet I'd posit these poems on a sort of chronological and emotional event horizon that begins to reckon with not just the losses of in her life, but also an acknowledgement that one day her own pen will be stilled.
I have found this collection to be moving, tender, keen and brilliant: all the things I expect from Mary Oliver.
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61 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Mary Oliver often comes to tea at my house. Or, her poetry does. It speaks to me as I as I sip each word like a fine blend—spicy, rich, and telling. Usually that’s what happens. Not with Oliver’s latest book, Blue Horses. I gulped it down like a puppy at a pond. It’s just what I needed, and will continue to need. These poems cry out for repeat visits, for underlining, for thinking about and going back again and again. She explains what I am looking for, what I am finding in her poetry, in the aptly named “What We Want” it is “something inexplicable made plain.” Which she does, has done, will do for me. I’ll sip, and sometimes gulp, these poems along with her previous ones, and I’ll trust that she continues to take her long walks with her notebook and pen in her pocket so that soon I’ll have more to savor. Mary Oliver is always welcome here.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
The only thing you really need to say about Blue Horses: Poems is that it's by Mary Oliver -- one of two or three truly great poets of our era. Her work is based in nature, but hardly limited to it; it's "simple," but hardly easy. In this book, begin at the beginning and then read through, or just browse -- you will be blessed by great poetry either way.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
I have loved, read and bought every book Mary ever wrote. Her writing has taken us through her young life to her mature years, through struggles and periods of peace and bliss and conversions and changes. She is a gift and I will never be able to thank her or the universe sufficiently. Blue Horses reflects a kind of 'becalmed' Mary Oliver. The phrases are there, but this is not a 'return' to her initial writing. Mary was once fiercely in love with life. Fiercely in love. The words are still there. The craftsmanship. But there is a roteness to it. With only small flashes of the old fire. Phrases that blew us all away; "I thought the earth remembered me" (sleeping in the forest) and "all you have to do is let the soft animal of your body love what it loves" (wild geese). And phrases like the seashells "so knocked about in the Sea's blue hands.." are gifts I can keep. I am grateful she is still writing. So I will say no more about Blue Horses than Mary seems distracted.
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I have read most of Mary Oliver's books. Blue Horses is my favorite. In my opinion, this collection is worthy of a Pulitzer. Will be gifting a few of my friends with this book.
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There is no better poet, in my mind, than Mary Oliver. She doesn't get fussy or cutsie. Her words are honest and pure. She's dynamic. I think she's a treasure.
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