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Long life : essays and other writings / Mary Oliver.

Summary:

The renowned American poet presents her thoughts on the beauty of the earth, death, remembrance, her childhood impressions of nature, and the unexpected boon of a town dump, along with appreciations of Emerson and Hawthorne, and a section of poems and prose poetry.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0306814129
  • ISBN: 9780306814129
  • Physical Description: 101 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Flow -- Habits, Differences, and the Light That Abides -- Poem: Can You Imagine? -- Three Histories and a Hummingbird -- Wordsworth's Mountain -- Dog Talk -- Perfect Days -- Poem: Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer -- Waste Land: An Elegy -- Emerson: An Introduction -- Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse -- House of the Seven Gables -- Prose Poem: Are You Okay? -- Poem: Softest of Mornings -- Dust -- Sand Dabs, Seven -- Poem: The Morning Walk -- Sand Dabs, Eight -- Comfort -- Sand Dabs, Nine -- Home -- Poem: Summer Night -- Poem: Carrying the Snake of the Garden -- Poem: By the Wild-Haired Corn -- Where I Live -- Poem: Waking on a Summer Morning -- Prose Poem: One Winter Day.
Subject: American essays > 20th century.
American poetry > 20th century.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Hood River County Library District.

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Hood River County Library 818 OLI 2004 (Text) 33892100648063 Adult Non-Fiction Available -

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