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Blue horses : poems

Oliver, Mary 1935-2019 (Author).

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Primitive presents a new collection of poems that reflects her signature imagery-based language and her observations of the unaffected beauty of nature.--Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781594204791 (hardback)
ISBN: 1594204799 (hardback)
Physical Description: print
79 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

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Subtitle from jacket.

Formatted Contents Note:

After reading Lucretius, I go to the pond -- What I can do -- Rumi -- First yoga lesson -- I don't want to be demure or respectable -- Stebbin's gulch -- No matter what -- Angels -- What we want -- If I wanted a boat -- Good morning -- The wasp -- Blueberries -- Little lord love -- Little crazy love song -- I woke -- The mangroves -- The hummingbirds -- Such silence -- Watering the stones -- Franz Marc's blue horses -- The vulture's wings -- On meditating, sort of -- To be human is to sing your own song -- Loneliness -- Drifting -- Forgive me -- I'm feeling fabulous, possibly too much so but I love it -- On not mowing the lawn -- The fourth sign of the Zodiac -- To Shiva -- Owl poem -- A little ado about this and that -- Do stones feel? -- I'm not the river -- The oak tree loves patience -- The country of the trees -- What gorgeous thing.