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Title:
Blue horses : poems
Author:
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
Publication Information:
New York, New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
79 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Primitive presents a new collection of poems that reflects her signature imagery-based language and her observations of the unaffected beauty of nature. --Publisher's description.
Language:
English
Contents:
After reading Lucretius, I go to the pond -- What I can do -- Rumi -- First yoga lesson -- I don't want to be demure or respectable -- Stebbin's gulch -- No matter what -- Angels -- What we want -- If I wanted a boat -- Good morning -- wasp -- Blueberries -- Little lord love -- Little crazy love song -- I woke -- mangroves -- hummingbirds -- Such silence -- Watering the stones -- Franz Marc's blue horses -- vulture's wings -- On meditating, sort of -- To be human is to sing your own song -- Loneliness -- Drifting -- Forgive me -- I'm feeling fabulous, possibly too much so but I love it -- On not mowing the lawn -- fourth sign of the Zodiac -- To Shiva -- Owl poem -- little ado about this and that -- Do stones feel? -- I'm not the river -- oak tree loves patience -- country of the trees -- What gorgeous thing.
Genre:
ISBN:
9781594204791
Format :
Book