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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings »
Authors: Mary Oliver
ISBN-13: 9780306814129, ISBN-10: 0306814129
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver is the author of twenty books, including The Leaf and the Cloud and What Do We Know. Her many accolades include the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Book Synopsis
A dazzling new collection of essays, poems, and prose poems by the best-selling author of The Leaf and the Cloud and What Do We Know
Publishers Weekly
"I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place" writes Mary Oliver, "Yet each has its own force." Her Long Life: Essays and Other Writings intersperses a few verses among prose pieces as various as "Dog Talk," "Emerson: An Introduction" and "Where I Live." As "Sand Dabs, Nine" puts it, "The energy of attempt is greater than the surety of stasis." Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | xiii | |
| Part 1 | Flow | 1 |
| Flow | 3 | |
| Habits, Differences, and the Light That Abides | 10 | |
| Poem: Can You Imagine? | 14 | |
| Three Histories and a Hummingbird | 15 | |
| Part 2 | Wordsworth's Mountain | 19 |
| Wordsworth's Mountain | 21 | |
| Dog Talk | 26 | |
| The Perfect Days | 32 | |
| Poem: Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer | 35 | |
| Waste Land: An Elegy | 36 | |
| Part 3 | Artists of the Beautiful | 41 |
| Emerson: An Introduction | 43 | |
| Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse | 52 | |
| The House of the Seven Gables | 62 | |
| Part 4 | Dust | 73 |
| Prose Poem: Are You Okay? | 75 | |
| Poem: Softest of Mornings | 76 | |
| Dust | 77 | |
| Sand Dabs, Seven | 81 | |
| Poem: The Morning Walk | 83 | |
| Sand Dabs, Eight | 84 | |
| Comfort | 86 | |
| Sand Dabs, Nine | 88 | |
| Home | 89 | |
| Poem: Summer Night | 92 | |
| Poem: Carrying the Snake to the Garden | 93 | |
| Poem: By the Wild-Haired Corn | 95 | |
| Where I Live | 96 | |
| Poem: Waking on a Summer Morning | 100 | |
| Prose Poem: One Winter Day | 101 | |
| Acknowledgments | 102 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Essays American Essays
Poetry American Poetry American poetry -> 21st century
Fiction Books & Literature Poetry American Poetry
Essays American EssaysPoetry
American Poetry American poetry -> 21st centuryFiction Books & Literature
Poetry American Poetry