About this title: In this elegantly designed volume, Oliver collects 23 of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life--hawks, hummingbirds, kingfishers, swans, and, of course, the snowy owl.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2006-04-15
ISBN-13:9780807068755ISBN:0807068756
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2003-09-30
ISBN-13:9780807068687ISBN:0807068683
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2006-04-15
ISBN-13:9780807068755ISBN:0807068756
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780807068687ISBN:0807068683
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780807068755ISBN:0807068756
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"This collection is worth reading if only for Wild Geese (which I want to memorize as though I am back in Catholic school prepping for the oratory contest), but it's quiet grace reminds me of why I need more Mary Oliver in my life and you probably do, too."
""White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field" Coming down out of the freezing sky with its depths of light, like an angel, or a buddha with wings, it was beautiful and accurate, striking the snow and whatever was there with a force that left the imprint of the tips of wings--five feet apart--and the grabbing thrust of its feet, and the indentation of what had been running through the white valleys of the snow--and then it rose, gracefully, and flew back to the frozen marshes, to lurk there, like a lighthouse, in the blue shadows--so I thought: maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light; wrapping itself around us--as soft as feathers--that we are instantly weary of looking, and looking, and shut our eyes, not without amazement, and let ourselves be carried, as through the translucence of mica, to the river that is without the least dapple or shadow--that is nothing but light--scalding, aortal light--in which we are washed and washed out of our bones. --Mary Oliver"
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