Dream work

Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019, author.

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Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive-continue in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the...

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ISBN:

9780871130693

Edition:

First edition

Description:

90 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

Dogfish
Morning Poem
The Chance to Love Everything
Trilliums
Rage
Wild Geese
Knife
Shadows
Dreams
The River
Consequences
Robert Schumann
Clamming
The Fire
Banyan
Whispers
Driving Through the Wind River Reservation: A Poem of Black Bear
Members of the Tribe
Starfish
The Journey
A Visitor
The House
Stanley Kunitz
Orion
One or Two Things
Poem
Marsh Hawks
Bowing to the Empress
The Turtle
Sunrise
Two Kinds of Deliverance
The Swimmer
Milkweed
The Waves
Landscape
The Shark
Storm in Massachusetts, September 1982
Acid
Black Snakes
The Moths
At Sea
1945-1985: Poem for the Anniversary
At Loxahatchie
Coming Home
The Sunflowers

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86007956

Control Number:

2667132

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