TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oliver,Mary
TI  - Blue pastures
SN  - 9780151001903
U1  - 814.54 23
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harcourt Brace
KW  - Fiction, Short Stories (Single Author)
KW  - Essays
KW  - Creation (Literary, Artistic, Etc.)
KW  - Essays (Single Author)
KW  - American Poetry
N2  - With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: of nature, of writing, of herself and those around her. She praises Whitman ("the brother I did not have") and denounces cuteness ("we are, none of us, cute".) She notes where the extraordinary is to be found ("it is more likely to stick to the risk-taker than the ticket-taker") and extols solitude ("creative work needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to"). Nature speaks to her, and she speaks to nature ("I put my face close to the lily, where it stands just above the grass, and give it a good greeting from the stem of my heart")
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