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Swan. Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

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"Joy is not made to be a crumb" - for that revelation alone, this book is already beautiful. The image of Heron in his death robes, with his wings of light, compounded the complex, resounding simplicity of this work.

Oh, distant relative, we will never speak to each other a single kind word. And yet, in this world, it is no small thing to sparkle.

thought i was falling out of love with her poems, this collection proved otherwise
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Needed a palette cleanser in between some other reads and the queen delivers again.

My favorite line came a the very end from The Poet Is Told to Fill Up More Pages

“abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Make of that what you will.”

A friend raved about Mary Oliver recently, so I picked up this book of her poetry at the library. Excellent! Oliver captures nature so perfectly in her poetry. This will not be the only Mary Oliver book of prose I read.