More deeply than in her previous volumes, the sensibility behind these poems has merged with the world. Whether by way of inheritance-as in her poem about the Holocaust-or through a painful glimpse into the present-as in "Acid," a poem about an injured boy begging in the streets of Indonesia-the events and tendencies of history take on a new importance also. years and featuring more than 200 poems, the collection shows Oliver, in the early years, turning. writers offers both the best of her work and a spiritual road map of sorts. What makes us human, aside from the ability to feel love and despair, is our imaginative capability, and this human quality can enable us to forge links with the rest of nature and find a place within the ‘family of things’. âIn Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Penguin), one of our most beloved.
Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit-to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships. Oliver tells us that no matter how lonely we get, the whole world is available to our imagination. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive-continue in Dream Work.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. 21 Mary Oliver Quotes about Nature, Beauty, Devotion, and Your Place in the World 1.
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