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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays

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I'm very disappointed that Amazon has produced such ugly versions of Mary Oliver's poetry books. One page with have tiny print and the next huge. Some quality control is badly needed. The poetry is wonderful; the Kindle version is horrible. Oliver cares very much about how her poems look on a page so this poor treatment of her work is especially disturbing.

Pat

MAry Oliver never disappoints. I wasn't sure about having essays as well as poems but they were also wonderful. The Truro Bear is a subtle and wonderful poem which ends "when has happiness ever required much evidence to begin its leaf-green breathing?"

This is a beautiful book by Mary Oliver. Her poetry is outstanding, exceptional. Read The Summer Day from this book and you'll see what I mean.

My husband presented this book to me when I told him about our pregnancy. He brought it to the hospital, and when our son was brought to us after delivery, he proceeded to read several very memorable poems to him. Mary Oliver writes brilliantly. Her poems are inspirational and full of nostalgia and symbolism. Over the past year we have purchased and enjoyed several other of her books, including Red Bird and Twelve Moons. My recent purchase of The Truro Bear and Other Adventures was to donate to Children's Hospital, NICU, for parents to read to their newborns.