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American Primitive
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If you're going to like poetry, then the only way to describe what makes for great poetry, and great nature poetry, is to simply read a book like this. Oliver had such a talent for writing in a way that seemed wholly contradictory: to give us in words what is a visceral experience. But isn't contradiction a tag of great literature? Where else do we challenge the truth of things by showing us one thing we believe and another thing we believe and show them to be wholly incompatible with each other (and yet they are compatible because we can believe both)? Oliver shows us the pain and joy of how simple things seem to be in nature, the pain arising from the romantic ideal that we cannot live in such simplicity, but unlike the Romantics, Oliver's poetry is not an overly frontal-lobed pining, lounging in philosophy and unaware of its own irony. No, Oliver strikes us deep with her verbs to bring us into the moment, like that of a caught fish that "flailed and sucked/at the burning/amazement of the air." And whether her moments are caught in the act of love, or joy, or exploring an old brothel, this book smacks you in the face needfully with every page.
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I misplaced my book for a while. So glad I found it again. This time I refused to put it down again because Mary Oliver in American Primitive took me on a Nature walk. American Primitive by Mary Oliver brims over like the white waters of a waterfall with goodness. It is so easy to see whatever she sees on this walk or to feel whatever she feels. One poem is about a little girl who gets lost. The poet gives the child's name. This made me feel the loss in a deeper way. Her name is Lydia Osburn. There is a poem about Tecumseh whom I want to know more about. I like this part of the poem most of all. "Where are the Shawnee now? Do you know? Or would you have to write to Washington, and even then, whatever they said, would you believe it?
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Mary Oliver is amazing. =]
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ISBN:
9780316650045
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
04/30/1983
Publisher:
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Pages:
88
Height:
.30IN
Width:
5.40IN
Thickness:
.25
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1983
Series Volume:
34
UPC Code:
2800316650047
Author:
Mary Cliver
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Mary Oliver
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Mary Oliver
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Poetry-A to Z
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Poetry (poetic works by one author)
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