| What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems Contributor(s): Oliver, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306812061 ISBN-13: 9780306812064 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: Evoking unforgettable images, the bestselling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Leaf and the Cloud" is now published in paperback. A "Boston Globe" bestseller and Book Sense 76 Pick. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2004556890 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 7.06" W x 8.3" (0.43 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing, wrote Stanley Kunitz many years ago; and recently, Rita Dove described her last volume, The Leaf and the Cloud, as a brilliant meditation. For the many admirers of Mary Oliver's dazzling poetry and luminous vision, as well as for those who may be coming to her work for the first time, What Do We Know will be a revelation. These forty poems-of observing, of searching, of pausing, of astonishment, of giving thanks-embrace in every sense the natural world, its unrepeatable moments and its ceaseless cycles. Mary Oliver evokes unforgettable images-from one hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day to bees that have memorized every stalk and leaf in a field-even as she reminds us, after Emerson, that the invisible and imponderable is the sole fact. |