West wind
poems and prose poems
by Mary Oliver
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The New York Times has called Mary Oliver's poems "thoroughly convincing - as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." In this stunning collection of forty poems - nineteen previously unpublished - she writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time. And the way they remain constant. And what did you think love would be like? A summer day? The brambles in their places, and the long stretches of mud? Flowers in every field, in every garden, with their soft beaks and their pastel shoulders? On one street after another, the litter ticks in the gutter. In one room after another, the lovers meet, quarrel, sicken, break apart, cry out. One or two leap from windows. Most simply lean, exhausted, their thin arms on the sill. They have done all they could. The golden eagle, that lives not far from here, has perhaps a thousand tiny feathers flowing from the back of its head, each one shaped like an infinitely small but perfect spear.
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West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
1998, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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0547525761 9780547525761
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West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
1998, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
1299896820 9781299896826
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"Seven white butterflies delicate in a hurry look how they bang the pages of their wings as they fly"
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In this stunning collection of 40 poems, Mary Oliver writes of nature and love, of the way they transform over time, and of the way they remain constant.
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