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isabela_bot's review
5.0
Love it. So many good poems. I want to read this book in a forest somewhere, the way she describes nature it’s just perfect.
One of my favorite parts:
Morning poem
“Every morning the world
is created.
…
each pond with its blazing lilies is a prayer heard and answered lavishly,
every morning,
whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy, whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.”
One of my favorite parts:
Morning poem
“Every morning the world
is created.
…
each pond with its blazing lilies is a prayer heard and answered lavishly,
every morning,
whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy, whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.”
plisetskys's review against another edition
5.0
whoever you are, no matter now lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
— favorites: ‘dogfish’, ‘morning poem’, ‘trilliums’, ‘wild geese’, ‘shadows’, ‘starfish’.
lisaelizabhet's review
4.0
Ya leí los pocos libros en español de Mary Oliver y estoy intentando leerla en inglés con el traductor de la kindle (es súper molestoso pero me obsesioné tanto que me aguanto). Es con la única poeta gringa que me funciona porque escribe sencillo. A veces no. Y la amo. No sé por qué, pero me encanta que simplemente me pase hablando de los patos, los zorros y las tortugas y las flores. Me contagia su amor por la naturaleza. No le importa escribirle otrooo poema al mar. No le importa alabar una y otra vez las mismas cosas que la rodean. Y lo hace muy bien. En uno de sus poemas dice: “I wish you would walk with me out into the world. I wish you could see what has to happen”. Al final siento que eso es lo único que quiso siempre: que camináramos y viéramos con ella lo que tanto le fascinaba.