
- 128 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read." -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief selection of new prose poems and poems.
With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks here of turtle eggs and housebuilding, of her surprise at an unexpected whistling she hears, of the "thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else." She talks of her own poems and of some of her favorite poets: Poe, writing of "our inescapable destiny," Frost and his ability to convey at once that "everything is all right, and everything is not all right," the "unmistakably joyful" Hopkins, and Whitman, seeking through his poetry "the replication of a miracle." And Oliver offers us a glimpse as well of her "private and natural self—something that must in the future be taken into consideration by any who would claim to know me."
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Essays and Poems
- Building the House
- Sister Turtle
- The Swan
- Three Prose Poems
- Moss
- Once
- The Whistler
- Four Poets
- The Bright Eyes of Eleonora: Poe’s Dream of Recapturing the Impossible
- A Man Named Frost
- The Poem as Prayer, the Prayer as Ornament: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Some Thoughts on Whitman
- Intermission
- The Boat
- Sand Dabs, Four
- Sand Dabs, Five
- Sand Dabs, Six
- Swoon
- The Storm
- Winter Hours
- Winter Hours
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
- Footnotes