New and selected poems /

One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. ... These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few...

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Main Author: Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [1992]
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505 0 0 |t New poems (1991-1992).  |t Rain ;  |t Spring azures ;  |t When death comes ;  |t Picking blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 ;  |t Her grave ;  |t Goldenrod ;  |t The waterfall ;  |t Peonies ;  |t This morning again it was in the dusting pines ;  |t Marengo ;  |t Field near Linden, Alabama ;  |t Gannets ;  |t Whelks ;  |t Alligator poem ;  |t Hawk ;  |t Goldfinches ;  |t Rice ;  |t Poppies ;  |t A certain sharpness in the morning air ;  |t A bitterness ;  |t Morning ;  |t Water snake ;  |t The egret ;  |t The snowshoe hare ;  |t The sun ;  |t Winter ;  |t Lonely, white fields ;  |t Hummingbird pauses at the trumpet vine ;  |t White flowers ;  |t October --  |t From House of light (1990).  |t Some questions you might ask ;  |t Moccasin flowers ;  |t The buddha's last instruction ;  |t Spring ;  |t Singapore ;  |t The hermit crab ;  |t Lilies ;  |t The swan ;  |t Indonesia ;  |t Some herons ;  |t Five A.M. in the pinewoods ;  |t Little owl who lives in the orchard ;  |t The kookaburras ;  |t The lilies break open over the dark water ;  |t Nature ;  |t The ponds ;  |t The summer day ;  |t Roses, late summer ;  |t Maybe ;  |t White owl flies into and out of the field --  |t From Dream work (1986).  |t Dogfish ;  |t Morning poem ;  |t Rage ;  |t Wild geese ;  |t Robert Schumann ;  |t Starfish ;  |t The journey ;  |t A visitor ;  |t Stanley Kunitz ;  |t One or two things ;  |t The turtle ;  |t Sunrise ;  |t Two kinds of deliverance ;  |t Landscape ;  |t Acid ;  |t The moths ;  |t 1945-1985: poem for the anniversary ;  |t The sunflowers --  |t From American primitive (1983).  |t August ;  |t Mushrooms ;  |t Lightning ;  |t Egrets ;  |t First snow ;  |t Ghosts ;  |t Vultures ;  |t Rain in Ohio ;  |t University Hospital, Boston ;  |t Skunk cabbage ;  |t Blossom ;  |t White night ;  |t The fish ;  |t Crossing the swamp ;  |t Humpbacks ;  |t A meeting ;  |t The sea ;  |t Happiness ;  |t Tecumseh ;  |t In Blackwater Woods. 
505 0 0 |t From Twelve moons (1979).  |t Sleeping in the forest ;  |t Mussels ;  |t The black snake ;  |t Spring ;  |t Strawberry moon ;  |t The Truro bear ;  |t Entering the kingdom ;  |t Buck moon- from the field guide to insects ;  |t Dreams ;  |t The lamps ;  |t Bone poem ;  |t Aunt Leaf ;  |t Hunter's moon- eating the bear ;  |t Last days ;  |t The black walnut tree ;  |t Wolf moon ;  |t The night traveler --  |t From The night traveler (1978) and Sleeping in the forest (1978).  |t Aunt Elsie's night music ;  |t Farm country ;  |t Creeks ;  |t Roses ;  |t Winter in the country ;  |t The family ;  |t Ice ;  |t Clam man ;  |t Bailing the boat ;  |t Crows ;  |t The rabbit ;  |t Three poems for James Wright ;  |t At Blackwater Pond --  |t From The River Styx, Ohio and other poems (1972).  |t Hattie Bloom ;  |t Spring in the classroom ;  |t Alex ;  |t Learning about the Indians ;  |t Night flight ;  |t Anne ;  |t Answers ;  |t The esquimos have no word for war ;  |t Encounter ;  |t Magellan ;  |t Going to Walden ;  |t The River Styx, Ohio --  |t From No voyage and other poems (1963 and 1965).  |t No voyage ;  |t The house ;  |t Beyond the snow belt ;  |t A letter from home ;  |t A dream of trees ;  |t The murderer's house ;  |t Being country bred ;  |t The swimming lesson ;  |t Morning in a new land ;  |t Swans on the River Ayr ;  |t The return ;  |t On winter's margin. 
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