And speak it has, for the past five decades, to countless readers. Instead, she preferred to let her work speak for itself. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.”įor anyone who values poetry and essays, for anyone who cares about birds, Owls and Other Fantasies will be a treasured gift for those who love both, it will be essential reading.Ī private person by nature, Mary Oliver (1935–2019) gave very few interviews over the years. In the words of the poet Stanley Kunitz, “Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep it reads like a blessing. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, “Owls,” selected for the Best American Essays series, and “Bird,” a new essay that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre. Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons kingfishers, catbirds, and crows swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver’s poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner’s life.
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