A Thousand Mornings: Poems Author: Mary Oliver | Language: English | ISBN:
B007V65O84 | Format: EPUB
A Thousand Mornings: Poems Description
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In
A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.
Mary Oliver's latest book, Dog Songs, was published in October 2013 by The Penguin Press- File Size: 448 KB
- Print Length: 97 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1594204772
- Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (October 11, 2012)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007V65O84
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,442 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Women - #2
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Contemporary - #20
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > American
There is one complaint to be made about A Thousand Mornings: it is far too short -- 80 pages, and many of those pages are blank. However, when the pages are not blank, we are drawn into the world of Mary Oliver, and it is a world from which we do not eagerly depart!
The book opens with the wry humor of "I Go Down to the Shore," and moves from there to the Roethkean questionings of "I Happened to Be Standing": "But I thought, of the wren's singing, what could this be if it isn't a prayer?" There are several one-paragraph prose poems of "earth-praise," which will entice those readers who are willing to be enticed. There is a dialogue with a fox, resumed from earlier books, and a nod to Bob Dylan, expanding on one of the book's epigraphs, Dylan's words: "Anything worth thinking about is also worth singing about." Oliver speaks of growth in the midst of devastation in the poem "Hurricane"; and this reader smiled at "Three Things to Remember," even if the poem was too baldly "proverbial."
The change of the seasons, summer to autumn, is depicted in "Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness," although to be sure, there is metaphoric darkness:
So let us go on, cheerfully enough,
this and every crisping day,
though the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.
The title poem, "A Thousand Mornings," is a prose-poem of a single sentence, but we do not indict the poem for brevity, when it speaks of "mak[ing] its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing...
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