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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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New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
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- Released
- 1992
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- Title
- New and Selected Poems
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mary Oliver
- Publisher
- Beacon
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN10
- 0807068187
- ISBN13
- 9780807068182
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Poetry, Classics, American Literature
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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.