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Title: American Primitive by Mary Oliver ISBN: 0-316-65004-8 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetry that celebrates the rhythms of life
Comment: I was really impressed by "American Primitive," the collection of poems by Mary Oliver. I knew that this book was special when I got to the third poem, "The Kitten." This poem about a stillborn kitten stopped me dead in my tracks. Painful yet beautiful, tragic yet transcendent, it sets a powerful tone for the collection as a whole.
And "American Primitive" does indeed strike me as a unified whole. It consists mostly of poems about American wildlife, with some poems that touch on people in United States history. The poems are often about the cycles of life, including birth, death, and loss. In some poems eating becomes a transcendent act that points to the connectedness of all life.
Oliver writes about mushrooms, blackberries, crows, egrets, deer, snakes, whales, and other living things. She also writes about such natural phenomena as snow and sunlight. Her language is often striking and sensuous. I love the lines from "Spring" where she says "The rain / rubs its shining hands all over me." With her attentiveness to the natural world, Oliver reminded me somewhat of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, but she really has a voice and vision all her own in "American Primitive."
Rating: 5
Summary: This Pulitzer Prize winner humbles me.
Comment: This book humbles me. I have been writing poetry for many years, and I'm an avid reader of poetry. I am amazed by the level and awareness Mary Oliver brings to the surface of human experience. This book is as much of a poet's book as it is for "anybody" willing to enrich their lives with poetry. Mary Oliver is a wise poet, if I dare use that term, for the modern world. It's easy to see why this book won the Pulitzer! Hail to the Pulitzer Prize judges who awarded Mary Oliver's American Primitive their award. It was one of their best choices.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: Beautiful. A great place to start if a reader has not read Oliver before. Not to be missed.
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Title: Dream Work by Mary Oliver ISBN: 0871130696 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: House of Light by Mary Oliver ISBN: 080706811X Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver ISBN: 0807068195 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: What Do We Know: Poems by Mary Oliver ISBN: 030680994X Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver ISBN: 0807068683 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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