The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807068853 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Mary Oliver is a wonderful moving writer. Another special volume Amazon Customer MAry Oliver never disappoints. I wasn't sure about having essays as well as poems but they were also wonderful. The Truro Bear is a subtle and wonderful poem which ends "when has happiness ever required much evidence to begin its leaf-green breathing?". Love Mary Oliver You simply can't go wrong reading Mary Oliver. This is one of her best volumes. Do yourself a favor and read it.
Mindfulness seems to be Oliver's métier, looking and listening her scientific method and contemplative practice."—Stephen Prothero, Search magazine . There is even a baker's dozen of poems about Percy, her dog, a lovable recurring character in her work. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations."—Stanley Kunitz "Like Henry David Thoreau of Transcendentalist fame she is a naturalist whose attention to what used to be called the Book of Nature borders on both devotion and experimentation. In all, this book is an affirmation."—Library Journal, starred review"Mary Oliver ranks among the finest poets the English language has ever produced. H
Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Her most recent works of poetry include Evidence,Red Bird,Thirst, and New and Selected Poems, Volume One and Volume<
The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved but disobedient little dog, Percy.. The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris, brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles