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Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems Paperback - 2000
by Mary Oliver
With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks of turtle eggs and house building, of her surprise at the powerful flight of swans, and of the "thousand unbreakable links between us and everything else."
Summary
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. (One of the essays has been chosen as among the best of the year by The Best American Essays 1998, another by The Anchor Essay Annual.) With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks here of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the sudden powerful flight of swans, of the "thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else." She talks of her own poems and of some of her favorite poets: Poe, writing of "our unescapable destiny," Frost and his ability to convey at once that "everything is all right, and everything is not all right," the "unmistakably joyful" Hopkins, and Whitman, seeking through his poetry "the replication of a miracle." And Oliver offers us a glimpse as well of her "private and natural self -- something that must in the future be taken into consideration by any who would claim to know me."
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I KNOW A YOUNG MAN who can build almost anything-a boat, a fence, kitchen cabinets, a table, a barn, a house.
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- Title Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
- Author Mary Oliver
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York
- Date 2000-04-24
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780395850879 / 0395850878
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8.34 x 5.38 x 0.34 in (21.18 x 13.67 x 0.86 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99019141
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
Excerpt
To believe in the soul -- to believe in it exactly as much and as hardily as one believes in a mountain, say, or a fingernail, which is ever in view -- imagine the consequences!
Media reviews
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" The Los Angeles Times
"A treat for those who know and like her poems and a good introduction for the general reader who has yet to discover her work." Pittsburg Post Gazette
"A treat for those who know and like her poems and a good introduction for the general reader who has yet to discover her work." Pittsburg Post Gazette
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