![]() ![]() As one reviewer puts it, 'her poetry reads like a blessing'. ![]() Awe, realisation and appreciation of the world we live in is its theme the natural world in all its diversity (- from snakes to swans, birds, flowers, waterfalls and dogs) its subject matter and language as serene as a still lake, as striking as a sunset, as beautiful and fragile as petals unfolding and as quiet and steady as a heartbeat - its modus of astounding.Ī good poem offers us a new way of looking at the world, but Mary Oliver's poems will change your way of looking completely. The world glitters and shines in her poetry. ![]() Every poem sings with the soul of someone who not only believes in beauty, but pursues it within everything and everywhere with a startling intensity. This collection of poems will make you fall in love with the world,as simple (and as staggering) as that.Īcclaimed American poet Mary Oliver has written here a tour-de-force of tender praise for the flora and fauna around us. ![]()
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