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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Oliver, Mary, 1935- Winter hours. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ©1999 (OCoLC)46321424 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Oliver |
ISBN: | 9780547349480 0547349483 1299881351 9781299881358 |
OCLC Number: | 769012791 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 109 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Part 1 -- Building the house -- Sister turtle -- The swan -- Three prose poems -- Moss -- Once -- The whistler -- Part 2 -- The bright eyes of Eleonora : Poe's dream of recapturing the impossible -- A man name Frost -- The poem as prayer, the prayer as ornament : Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Some thoughts on Whitman -- Part 3 -- The boat -- Sand dabs, four -- Sand dabs, five -- Sand dabs, six -- Swoon -- The storm -- Part 4 -- Winter hours. |
Responsibility: | Mary Oliver. |
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Abstract:
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems. (One of the essays has been chosen as among the best of the year by The Best American Essays 1998, another by The Anchor Essay Annual.) With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks here of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at the sudden powerful flight of swans, of the "thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else." She talks of her own poems and of some of her favorite poets: Poe, writing of "our unescapable destiny," Frost and his ability to convey at once that "everything is all right, and everything is not all right," the "unmistakably joyful" Hopkins, and Whitman, seeking through his poetry "the replication of a miracle." And Oliver offers us a glimpse as well of her "private and natural self -- something that must in the future be taken into consideration by any who would claim to know me."
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