Felicity

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Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poemsIf I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger, Mary Oliver once said in an interview Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver s love poems Here, great happiness abounds Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts to the wild and to the quiet In these poems, she describes with joy the strangeness and wonder of human connection As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and beauty. Read Felicity – kino-fada.fr Oh reach into the night sky and hand me 5 starsso I can give you a 10 star reviewI really enjoy Mary Oliver s poetry She writes a lot about nature and animals This book has poems about love They are beautiful I Don t Want to LoseI don t want to lose a single threadfrom the intricate brocade of this happiness.I want to remember everything.Which is why ...Humility Poems arrive ready to begin.Poets are only the transportation.For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E 1945 2014 Where has this cold come from It comes from the death of your friend Will I always, from now on, be this cold No, it will diminish But alwaysit will be with you What is the...Things take the time they take Don tworry.How many roads did St Augustine followbefore he became St Augustine That is how Mary Oliver starts The Journey, the first part of her latest book that goes by the name of Felicity How brilliantly appropriate, wouldn t you say Reading this first poem titled Don t Worry on the very first day of a new year Makes you think about the urgency of the resolutions whispered before midnightMary Oliver s voice feels familiar, as if you have been listening Things take the time they take Don tworry.How many roads did St Augustine followbefore he became St Augustine That is how Mary Oliver starts The Journey, the first part of her latest book that goes by the name of Felicity How brilliantly appropriate, wouldn t you say Reading this first poem titled Don t Worry on the very first day of a new year Makes you think about the urgency of the resolutions whispered before midnightMary Oliver s voice feels familiar, as if you have been listening to it since the moment you took your very first breath Inner peace in the middle of the turmoil that is life, that s how I would describe her voice There s a wiseness to it Not self proclaimed, though There s respect, to each her his own pace She sees with her heart, her hopes and fears, and she then lays these portraits gently on the page with the help of words.Only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one.If I were you, I would buy this book and read a poem... It seems you love this world very much Yes, I said This beautiful world And you don t mind the mind, that keeps youbusy all the time with its dark and bright wonderings No, I m quite used to it Busy, busy,all the time And you don t mind living with those questions,I mean the hard ones, that no one can answer Actually, they re the most interesting And you have a person in your life whose handyou like to hold Yes, I do It must surely, then, be very happy down therein your heart Yes,It seems you love this world very much Yes, I...This isn t where I would start with Mary Oliver, and it pains me to give this collection only 3 stars But they are a bit thin on connection and insight compared to her normal works.Here is my favorite MomentsThere are moments that cr...This is the fourth collection of Mary Oliver poems I ve read and I m still completely in awe.I prefer her poems about nature, but still, these are just beautiful A surprise find at the library when I went in to renew my card.Mary Oliver s latest collection is a rumination on love Unfortunately, it takes her away from the natural world, searching a bitin the ephemeral Her strongest work has always been about looking at little moments and finding deeper meaning there Without that connection to the physical world, there is something just self helpy and feel good without feeling substantial There are, of course,...I so enjoyed this fix of Mary Oliver s poetry It is spare but never sparse, and full of awe This explores love As I read my heart rate slowed and a great, thinking calm came over me.

Felicity
  • English
  • 21 February 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 96 pages
  • 1594206767
  • Mary Oliver
  • Felicity