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61) A Poem a Day
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Includes 366 poems old and new, one for each day of the year, worth learning by heart.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
These 40 poems embrace in every sense the natural world, its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes unforgettable images--from 100 white-sided dolphins on a summer day to bees that have memorized every leaf in a field--even as she reminds readers, after Emerson, that "the invisible and imponderable is the sole fact."
Author
Pub. Date
©1994
Description
Poetry of nature. In Fall she writes: "the black oaks / fling their bronze fruit / into all the pockets of earth / pock pock / they knock against the thresholds / the roof the sidewalk / fill the eaves / the bottom line / of the old gold song / of the almost finished year."
Author
Description
The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, temporality, and eternity interweave throughout Merwin's newest collection of poems. "I have only what I remember," he admits, and his memories are focused and profound--well-cultivated loves, the distant qualities of autumnal light, memories of Pennsylvania miners, a conversation with a boyhood teacher, and "our long evenings and astonishment." From the universe's chiaroscuro shadows, Merwin once again calls...
69) The cozy book
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Verses describe a variety of foods, activities, smells, sounds, words, places, people, feelings, and other things perceived as being cozy.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"In "A Thousand mornings", Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings...
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