Winter Hours
eBook - ePub

Winter Hours

Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Winter Hours

Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

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

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Foreword
  7. Essays and Poems
  8. Building the House
  9. Sister Turtle
  10. The Swan
  11. Three Prose Poems
  12. Moss
  13. Once
  14. The Whistler
  15. Four Poets
  16. The Bright Eyes of Eleonora: Poe’s Dream of Recapturing the Impossible
  17. A Man Named Frost
  18. The Poem as Prayer, the Prayer as Ornament: Gerard Manley Hopkins
  19. Some Thoughts on Whitman
  20. Intermission
  21. The Boat
  22. Sand Dabs, Four
  23. Sand Dabs, Five
  24. Sand Dabs, Six
  25. Swoon
  26. The Storm
  27. Winter Hours
  28. Winter Hours
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. About the Author
  31. Connect with HMH
  32. Footnotes