House of Light

Zusatztext Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing--as genuine! moving! and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring. -The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Mary Oliver (19352019), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. She wrote over 30 volumes of poetry and prose, including Blue Iris , Owls and Other Fantasies , Why I Wake Early , two volumes of New and Selected Poems , and Devotions , as well as two essay collections, Long Life and Upstream . Klappentext This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award Zusammenfassung This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Some Questions You Might Ask Moccasin Flowers The Buddha's Last Instruction Spring Singapore The Hermit Crab Lilies Wings The Swan The Kingfisher Indonesia Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Turtle The Deer The Loon on Oak-Head Pond What Is It? Writing Poems Some Herons Five A.M. in the Pinewoods Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard The Gift Pipefish The Kookaburras The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water Death at a Great Distance The Notebook Praise Looking for Snakes Fish Bones The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond Everything Nature Snake The Ponds The Summer Day Serengeti The Terns Roses, Late Summer Herons in Winter in the Frozen Marsh Looking at a Book of van Gogh's Paintings, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Foxes in Winter How Turtles Come to Spend the Winter in the Aquarium, Then Are Flown South and Released Back Into the Sea Crows Maybe Finches White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field...

Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing--as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring. -The New York Times Book Review

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Mary Oliver (1935–2019), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. She wrote over 30 volumes of poetry and prose, including Blue Iris, Owls and Other Fantasies, Why I Wake Early, two volumes of New and Selected Poems, and Devotions, as well as two essay collections, Long Life and Upstream.

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This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume)

Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award

Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award

Contenu
Some Questions You Might Ask
Moccasin Flowers
The Buddha’s Last Instruction
Spring
Singapore
The Hermit Crab
Lilies
Wings
The Swan
The Kingfisher
Indonesia
“Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”
Turtle
The Deer
The Loon on Oak-Head Pond
What Is It?
Writing Poems
Some Herons
Five A.M. in the Pinewoods
Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard
The Gift
Pipefish
The Kookaburras
The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water
Death at a Great Distance
The Notebook
Praise
Looking for Snakes
Fish Bones
The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond
Everything
Nature
Snake
The Ponds
The Summer Day
Serengeti
The Terns
Roses, Late Summer
Herons in Winter in the Frozen Marsh
Looking at a Book of van Gogh’s Paintings, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Foxes in Winter
How Turtles Come to Spend the Winter in the Aquarium, Then Are Flown South and Released Back Into the Sea
Crows
Maybe
Finches
White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field