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Bezig met laden... Dream Work (editie 1986)door Mary Oliver (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkDream Work door Mary Oliver
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is only the second full Mary Oliver collection I have read, and it is still somehow a revelation that her poetry isn't just "go watch geese and be happy," which is like, the Cliff's Notes version of Mary Oliver that exists in pop culture, but embraces nature as a balm exactly because it is so weighed down with the tragedies and contradictions and cruelties of life. Lovely. Perfect Companion for a Rainy Twilight This book served as an introductory leap into the marvelous works of Mary Oliver for me. I've never been taken with a book of poetry like this - straddled in mellow verses, swayed to the rhythm, calmed by sleepy melodies that churn out of her affair with nature. I've rediscovered my love for Whitman and the romantics. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won 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. 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 here. 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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i have meandered my way through and found that this is not my favorite collection of mary oliver's. usually her boundless positivity and adoration of nature really uplifts me, but this one didn't feel so devotional! still simplistic in its beauty. but it felt a little disjointed, too. i think they should have all been about water/the ocean/the beach/the animals present
instead of moving around through different ideas so flippantly. or maybe about dreams. or SOMETHING!
favorite poems from this collection:
wild geese (obviously)
the swimmer ( )