Dream Work
by Mary Oliver
2020-12-29 17:44:52
An âastonishingâ book of poetry from the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of American Primitive and âone of our very best poetsâ (Stephen Dobyns, The New York Times Book Review). Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, fol...
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An âastonishingâ book of poetry from the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of American Primitive and âone of our very best poetsâ (Stephen Dobyns, The New York Times Book Review). Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows Mary Oliverâs Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry volume American Primitive. The deep perceptual awareness on display in that collection is all the more radiant and steadfast here. With this new collection, Oliver has turned her attention to the solitary and difficult labors of the spiritâto accepting the truth about oneâs personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failÂures of human relationships. Oliver brings grace and empathy to the painful legacies of history, whether by way of inheritanceâas in her poem about the Holocaustâ-or through a glimpse into the realities of presentâas in her poem about an injured boy begging in the streets of Indonesia. And yet, Oliverâs willingness to find light, humanity, and joy continues, deepened by self-awareness, by experience, and by choice.
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