The Truro bear and other adventures : poems and essays / Mary Oliver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliver, Mary, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

The Chance to Love Everything

The Gesture

Porcupine

Toad

One Hundred White-sided Dolphins on a Summer Day

The Kitten

Ghosts

Carrying the Snake to the Garden

The Opossum

This Is the One

At Herring Cove

Coyote in the Dark, Coyotes Remembered

Turtle

The Other Kingdoms

Swimming with Otter

Black Snake

Five A.M. in the Pinewoods

Humpbacks

Moles

The Snow Cricket

Whelks

A Meeting

The Gift

The Truro Bear

Alligator Poem

The Hermit Crab

Hannah's Children

Pipefish

This Too

Swoon

How Turtles Come to Spend the Winter in the Aquarium, Then Are Flown South and Released Back Into the Sea

The Poet Goes to Indiana

The Summer Day

Mink

Percy (One)

Percy (Two)

Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night (Three)

Percy (Four)

News of Percy (Five)

Percy (Six)

Percy (Seven)

Percy and Books (Eight)

Percy (Nine)

I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life (Ten)

Percy at His Bath, or, Ambivalence (Eleven)

Percy at Breakfast (Twelve)

Percy Speaks While I Am Doing Taxes (Thirteen)

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8070-9708-X

OCLC:

646769119