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In her seventh book, Oliver--Pulitzer Prize winner for her 1984 collection, American Primitive ( LJ 2/15/83)--carries readers into her vivid landscape and involves them in her process of discovery and recognition--from the tiny white spot in the distance, to the realization that it's a bird, to the name and song of the bird. This is a poet who rhetorically asks: "how could there be a day in your whole life/ that doesn't have its splash of happiness?" Lyrical lines move gracefully across the page as the spirituality mounts. One is tempted to call these poems too "poetic" or "romantic," but Oliver does not avoid nature's cruelty. With original, compelling vision, she discovers the same "splash of happiness" in the snow shining around a beggar boy or the smile of a woman cleaning toilets in Indonesia. Recommended.
- Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Buddha's Last Instruction
Crows
Death At A Great Distance
The Deer
Everything
Finches
Fish Bones
Five A.m. In The Pinewoods
Foxes In Winter
The Gift
The Hermit Crab
Herons In Winter In The Frozen Marsh
How Turtles Come To Spend The Winder In The Aquarium, ...
Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen
Indonesia
The Kingfisher
The Kookaburras
Lilies
The Lilies Break Open Over The Dark Water
Little Owl Who Lives In The Orchard
Looking At A Book Of Van Gogh's Paintings, ...
Looking For Snakes
The Loon On Oak-head Pond
Maybe
Moccasin Flowers
Nature
The Notebook
The Oak Tree At The Entrance To The Blackwater Pond
Pipefish
The Ponds
Praise
Roses, Late Summer
Serengeti
Singapore
Snake
Some Herons
Some Questions You Might Ask
Spring
The Summer Day
The Swan
The Terns
Turtle
What Is It?
White Owl Flies Into And Out Of The Field
Wings
Writing Poems
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Crows
Death At A Great Distance
The Deer
Everything
Finches
Fish Bones
Five A.m. In The Pinewoods
Foxes In Winter
The Gift
The Hermit Crab
Herons In Winter In The Frozen Marsh
How Turtles Come To Spend The Winder In The Aquarium, ...
Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen
Indonesia
The Kingfisher
The Kookaburras
Lilies
The Lilies Break Open Over The Dark Water
Little Owl Who Lives In The Orchard
Looking At A Book Of Van Gogh's Paintings, ...
Looking For Snakes
The Loon On Oak-head Pond
Maybe
Moccasin Flowers
Nature
The Notebook
The Oak Tree At The Entrance To The Blackwater Pond
Pipefish
The Ponds
Praise
Roses, Late Summer
Serengeti
Singapore
Snake
Some Herons
Some Questions You Might Ask
Spring
The Summer Day
The Swan
The Terns
Turtle
What Is It?
White Owl Flies Into And Out Of The Field
Wings
Writing Poems
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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