American Primitive: poems

by Mary Oliver

Paper Book, 1983

Status

Checked out
Due Apr 7, 2024

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Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c1983.

Description

50 lyrical poems by the author express renewal of humanity in love and oneness with the natural.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jaemaree
Ugh! she just transports me to the still places
LibraryThing member DonnaMarieMerritt
Two of my favorites from this collection: "Fall Song" and "Crossing the Swamp"
LibraryThing member realbigcat
It's easy to see why Mary Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize winner. Her words on the simple pleasures of nature strike a beautiful, simplistic chord with the reader. The best poems aren't complex but rather simple. They point out what we already see around us. Mary Oliver just does this better than anyone
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LibraryThing member jarvenpa
Oh, I was dazzled and delighted when this book won the Pulitzer; it is so rare for my favorites to do so. I love Mary Oliver's work, so sinewy and mystic, but with mud at the roots.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Poetry — 1984)

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Barcode

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