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Long life : essays and other writings / Mary Oliver.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xiv, 101 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0306809958
  • 9780306809958
  • 9780306814129
  • 0306814129
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Part One: Flow. Flow -- Habits, Differences, and the Light That Abides -- Poem: Can You Imagine? -- Three Histories and a Hummingbird -- Part Two: Wordsworth's Mountain. Wordsworth's Mountain -- Dog Talk -- The Perfect Days -- Poem: Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer -- Waste Land: An Elegy -- Part Three: Artists of the Beautiful. Emerson: An Introduction -- Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse -- The House of the Seven Gables -- Part Four: Dust. Prose Poem: Are You Okay? -- Poem: Softest of Mornings -- Dust -- Sand Dabs, Seven -- Poem: The Morning Walk -- Sand Dabs, Eight -- Comfort -- Sand Dabs, Nine -- Home -- Poem: Summer Night -- Poem: Carrying the Snake to the Garden -- Poem: By the Wild-Haired Corn -- Where I Live -- Poem: Waking on a Summer Morning -- Prose Poem: One Winter Day.
Summary: A collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 818.6 O48 Available 33111003841885
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" ( Miami Herald ). This has never been truer than in Long Life , a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems. With the grace and precision that are the hallmarks of her work, Oliver shows us how writing "is a way of offering praise to the world" and suggests we see her poems as "little alleluias." Whether describing a goosefish stranded at low tide, the feeling of being baptized by the mist from a whale's blowhole, or the "connection between soul and landscape," Oliver invites readers to find themselves and their experiences at the center of her world. In Long Life she also speaks of poets and writers: Wordsworth's "whirlwind" of "beauty and strangeness"; Hawthorne's "sweet-tempered" side; and Emerson's belief that "a man's inclination, once awakened to it, would be to turn all the heavy sails of his life to a moral purpose." With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has created a breathtaking volume sure to add to her reputation as "one of our very best poets" ( New York Times Book Review )."

Part One: Flow. Flow -- Habits, Differences, and the Light That Abides -- Poem: Can You Imagine? -- Three Histories and a Hummingbird -- Part Two: Wordsworth's Mountain. Wordsworth's Mountain -- Dog Talk -- The Perfect Days -- Poem: Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer -- Waste Land: An Elegy -- Part Three: Artists of the Beautiful. Emerson: An Introduction -- Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse -- The House of the Seven Gables -- Part Four: Dust. Prose Poem: Are You Okay? -- Poem: Softest of Mornings -- Dust -- Sand Dabs, Seven -- Poem: The Morning Walk -- Sand Dabs, Eight -- Comfort -- Sand Dabs, Nine -- Home -- Poem: Summer Night -- Poem: Carrying the Snake to the Garden -- Poem: By the Wild-Haired Corn -- Where I Live -- Poem: Waking on a Summer Morning -- Prose Poem: One Winter Day.

Includes bibliographical references.

A collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.

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