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Overview

"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.

With the grace and precision that are the hallmarks of her work, Oliver shows us how writing "is a way of offering praise to the world" and suggests we see her poems as "little alleluias." Whether describing a goosefish stranded at low tide, the feeling of being baptized by the mist from a whale's blow-hole, or the "connection between soul and landscape," Oliver invites readers to find themselves and their experiences at the center of her world. In Long Life she also speaks of poets and writers: Wordsworth's "whirlwind" of "beauty and strangeness"; Hawthorne's "sweettempered" side; and Emerson's belief that "a man's inclination, once awakened to it, would be to turn all the heavy sails of his life to a moral purpose."

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"I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place" writes Mary Oliver, "Yet each has its own force." Her Long Life: Essays and Other Writings intersperses a few verses among prose pieces as various as "Dog Talk," "Emerson: An Introduction" and "Where I Live." As "Sand Dabs, Nine" puts it, "The energy of attempt is greater than the surety of stasis." Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oliver is best known for her collections of poetry (e.g., The Leaf and the Cloud). She is also the author of A Poetry Handbook, one of the quintessential tools of encouragement, advice, and direction for the budding poet. In this arresting anthology of 17 essays and ten poems, similar in style to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, Oliver takes her time word painting charmingly simple yet deeply enduring pictures of interactions among women and men, animals, and nature. She appears to etch each line with ease, which is the stamp of the professional, pointing out that prose is the softened, fleshy story, while poetry remains the stark revelation in writing. Each word touches the next, forming a virtual symphony of visuals. Daily tasks become touching rituals that define who we are, while the mundane is made sparkling, sometimes sharp, and even shattering yet never dull or lost owing to repetition. Recommended for large public and academic poetry and literary collections. Kim Harris, Rochester P.L., NY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780306814129
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/2005
  • Pages: 101
  • Sales rank: 264,940
  • Product dimensions: 5.42 (w) x 8.52 (h) x 0.36 (d)

Meet the Author

Mary Oliver is the author of twenty books, including The Leaf and the Cloud and What Do We Know. Her many accolades include the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Part 1 Flow 1
Flow 3
Habits, Differences, and the Light That Abides 10
Poem: Can You Imagine? 14
Three Histories and a Hummingbird 15
Part 2 Wordsworth's Mountain 19
Wordsworth's Mountain 21
Dog Talk 26
The Perfect Days 32
Poem: Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer 35
Waste Land: An Elegy 36
Part 3 Artists of the Beautiful 41
Emerson: An Introduction 43
Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse 52
The House of the Seven Gables 62
Part 4 Dust 73
Prose Poem: Are You Okay? 75
Poem: Softest of Mornings 76
Dust 77
Sand Dabs, Seven 81
Poem: The Morning Walk 83
Sand Dabs, Eight 84
Comfort 86
Sand Dabs, Nine 88
Home 89
Poem: Summer Night 92
Poem: Carrying the Snake to the Garden 93
Poem: By the Wild-Haired Corn 95
Where I Live 96
Poem: Waking on a Summer Morning 100
Prose Poem: One Winter Day 101
Acknowledgments 102

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