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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Primitive presents a new collection of poems that reflects her signature imagery-based language and her observations of the unaffected beauty of nature. --Publisher's description.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
POETRY / General.
POETRY / American / General.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • After reading Lucretius, I go to the pond
  • What I can do
  • Rumi
  • First yoga lesson
  • I don't want to be demure or respectable
  • Stebbin's gulch
  • No matter what
  • Angels
  • What we want
  • If I wanted a boat
  • Good morning
  • The wasp
  • Blueberries
  • Little lord love
  • Little crazy love song
  • I woke
  • The mangroves
  • The hummingbirds
  • Such silence
  • Watering the stones
  • Franz Marc's blue horses
  • The vulture's wings
  • On meditating, sort of
  • To be human is to sing your own song
  • Loneliness
  • Drifting
  • Forgive me
  • I'm feeling fabulous, possibly too much so but I love it
  • On not mowing the lawn
  • The fourth sign of the Zodiac
  • To Shiva
  • Owl poem
  • A little ado about this and that
  • Do stones feel?
  • I'm not the river
  • The oak tree loves patience
  • The country of the trees
  • What gorgeous thing.