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Dream work / Mary Oliver.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.L5 D74 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, [1986]
- Summary:
- 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. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive-continue in Dream Work. 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. 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. More deeply than in her previous volumes, the sensibility behind these poems has merged with the world. Mary Oliver's willingness to be joyful continues, deepened by self-awareness, by experience, and by choice.
- Contents:
- Dogfish 3
- Morning Poem 6
- The Chance to Love Everything 8
- Trilliums 10
- Rage 12
- Wild Geese 14
- Knife 15
- Shadows 17
- Dreams 18
- The River 20
- Consequences 22
- Robert Schumann 23
- Clamming 24
- The Fire 26
- Banyan 27
- Whispers 29
- Driving Through the Wind River Reservation: A Poem of Black Bear 31
- Members of the Tribe 32
- Starfish 36
- The Journey 38
- A Visitor 40
- The House 42
- Stanley Kunitz 44
- Orion 49
- One or Two Things 50
- Poem 52
- Marsh Hawks 54
- Bowing to the Empress 55
- The Turtle 57
- Sunrise 59
- Two Kinds of Deliverance 61
- The Swimmer 63
- Milkweed 65
- The Waves 66
- Landscape 68
- The Shark 69
- Storm in Massachusetts, September 1982 71
- Acid 73
- Black Snakes 75
- The Moths 77
- At Sea 79
- 1945-1985: Poem for the Anniversary 81
- At Loxahatchie 84
- Coming Home 86
- The Sunflowers 88.
- ISBN:
- 0871130718 :
- 0871130696
- OCLC:
- 13455367
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