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Name: New and Selected Poems

Author: Mary Oliver
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Genres/categories: Poetry, Award winners

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9780807068779
9780807068786
9780807068861
0807068772
0807068780
0807068861
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1992.

As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful imagery, and love and knowledge of the natural world are all driven by a searching mind, expressed in poems that make for good company. In Some Questions You Might Ask, Oliver gives us this one to chew over: "Is the soul solid, like iron?/ or is it tender and breakable, like/ the wings of a moth in the beak of an owl?" Highly recommended.
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