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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
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Just as dancing is "the art of moving in accord with a pattern," says Mary Oliver, so is writing metrical verse. "One sorts out the pattern, one relies on it, and relaxes from effort to pleasure." The rules (concerning rhyme, line length, and pattern) are made if not to be deliberately flouted, then at least to be toyed with. Oliver claims to have writ... »
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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
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Her father is dying, and her plane's been cancelled, but there's another, leaving in just a few minutes, not in this terminal, but it will get her to her father before he dies, and so Sharon Olds runs --- I swear to you, she runs as no woman has ever run before.
She's making love. Though it looks like she's having sex, because the writing... »
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Dream Work
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I discovered Mary Oliver by reading a short story which referenced Wild Geese. Finding Wild Geese quite literally saved my life. The rest of Dream Work was hardly a let down. The opening poem, Dogfish... "I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun"... how do you get better than that? From Rage to Shadows to Sliver, Orion, Trilliums... e... »
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The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics)
Ovid was banished into exile for writing "Art of Love", which is included in this book. It's a sort of versified manual for getting girls and getting "lai... »
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American Primitive
Mary Oliver is capable of throwing the natural world into high relief, and at her best she makes humans feel at home there too... such images as grief's g... »
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House of Light
I've read just about everything that Mary Oliver has written...and something about "House of Light" makes me sit up and LISTEN to the natural world. Thes... »
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
This is one of the most disgusting books I have ever been forced to read. I believe college professors can find something better to use as examples in the... »
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