About this title: Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness -- so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive -- continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit -- to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.
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Edition: First edition. Unabridged.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780871130716ISBN:0871130718
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. 90 p. Ex-lib copy with front flyleaf torn out. Stated lst ed. Dj not price. clipped. read more
Description: Very Good. 0871130718 first edition, hardcover 1986, in dustjacket. Light shelf wear. Jacket has small tape repair to a 1/4" closed tear at top edge and another tiny tape "reinforcement" to top edge of spine. Price-clipped. Black cloth spine, blue embossed cover. Almost un-noticeable sunning to top of boards and lightly dusty top edge. A nice copy of Oliver's seventh book, seldom seen in it's first edition state. read more
"There are many poems, such as "The Wild Geese" that I find myself sending to friends. I met Mary Oliver at a writer's conference in Sitka, Alaska in the 80s and have run into her once in a while since as she lives in Provincetown about 60 miles from me."
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