New and Selected Poems

As Diane Wakoski has noted, the power of Mary Oliver's Frost-influenced pastoral writing is in her ability to cast a spell, to create "the illusion that the natural world is graspable." Oliver's fierce independence, beautiful imagery, and love and knowledge of the natural world are all driven by a searching mind, expressed in poems that make for good company. In Some Questions You Might Ask, Oliver gives us this one to chew over: "Is the soul solid, like iron?/ or is it tender and breakable, like/ the wings of a moth in the beak of an owl?" Highly recommended.

• Author
• Mary Oliver

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 255

• Publisher
• Beacon Press (MA)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780807068199

• Genres
• poetry, nature, american, literature, classics

• Release date
• 1993