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What Do We Know: Poems And Prose Poems
Mary Oliver
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Description for What Do We Know: Poems And Prose Poems
Paperback. Now in paperback-the best-selling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Leaf and the Cloud. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 170.
Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep it reads like a blessing," wrote Stanley Kunitz many years ago and recently, Rita Dove described her last volume, The Leaf and the Cloud, as "a brilliant meditation." For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's dazzling poetry and luminous vision, as well as for those who may be coming to her work for the first time, What Do We Know will be a revelation. These forty poems-of observing, of searching, of pausing, of astonishment, of giving thanks-embrace in every sense the natural world, its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes ... Read more
Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep it reads like a blessing," wrote Stanley Kunitz many years ago and recently, Rita Dove described her last volume, The Leaf and the Cloud, as "a brilliant meditation." For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's dazzling poetry and luminous vision, as well as for those who may be coming to her work for the first time, What Do We Know will be a revelation. These forty poems-of observing, of searching, of pausing, of astonishment, of giving thanks-embrace in every sense the natural world, its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306812064
SKU
V9780306812064
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About Mary Oliver
Born in a small town in Ohio, Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of twenty-three. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Hennington College, where ... Read more
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