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American Primitive (78 Edition)

by Mary Oliver

Average based on 1 comment. Synopses & Reviews Customer Comments (1) ISBN13: 9780316650045 ISBN10: 0316650048 Condition: Student Owned All Product Details

 

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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The fifty poems in American Primitive make up a body of luminous unity. Mary Oliver's visionary poems enunciate the renewals of nature and the renewals of humanity in love, in oneness with the natural, in union with the things of this world. Lyrical and elegiac, Mary Oliver celebrates the primitive things of America — the wilderness that survives both within our bodies and outside — "...the cords / of my body stretching / and singing in the / heaven of appetite."

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"Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations. American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyic voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages." Stanley Kunitz

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"Far beneath teh surface-flash of linguistic effect, Mary Oliver works her quite and mysterious spell. It is a spell, unlike any other poet's, the enchantment of the true maker." James Dickey

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"These poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight." May Swenson

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780316650045

Author:

Oliver, Mary

Author:

Cliver, Mary

Publisher:

Back Bay Books

Location:

Boston :

Subject:

General

Subject:

American

Subject:

American - General

Subject:

Single Author *

Subject:

Poetry

Subject:

Poetry (poetic works by one author)

Subject:

Poetry-A to Z

Edition Number:

1st ed.

Series Volume:

34

Publication Date:

19830431

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

88

Dimensions:

8.06x5.34x.26 in. .22 lbs.

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Product details 88 pages Back Bay Books - 0- English 9780316650045 Reviews:

"Review" by Stanley Kunitz, "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations. American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyic voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages."

"Review" by James Dickey, "Far beneath teh surface-flash of linguistic effect, Mary Oliver works her quite and mysterious spell. It is a spell, unlike any other poet's, the enchantment of the true maker."

"Review" by May Swenson, "These poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight."