From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes ""the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be.""
In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures, Mary Oliver brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of her classic poems, and two essays, all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds- bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit crabs, and, of course, her beloved and disobedient little dog, Percy, who appears and even speaks in thirteen poems, the closing section of this volume.
As Renee Loth has observed in the Boston Globe, ""Mary Oliver, who won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1983, is my choice for her joyous, accessible, intimate observations of the natural world . . . She teaches us the profound act of paying attention.""
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver, ""The Summer Day"" (one of the poems in this volume)
By:
Mary Oliver
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 223mm,
Width: 168mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780807068847
ISBN 10: 0807068845
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Poems In This Volume The Chance to Love Everything The Gesture Porcupine Toad One Hundred White-sided Dolphins on a Summer Day The Kitten Ghosts Carrying the Snake to the Garden The Opossum This Is the One At Herring Cove Coyote in the Dark, Coyotes Remembered Turtle The Other Kingdoms Swimming with Otter Black Snake Five A.M. in the Pinewoods Humpbacks Moles The Snow Cricket Whelks A Meeting The Gift The Truro Bear Alligator Poem The Hermit Crab Hannah’s Children Pipefish This Too Swoon How Turtles Come to Spend the Winter in the Aquarium, Then Are Flown South and Released Back Into the Sea The Poet Goes to Indiana The Summer Day
Reviews for The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
Oliver has the ability to transform everyday life events into something extraordinary. . . . [She shows us a natural world that is too often forgotten, in all its humor, grace and absolute loveliness.] Emily Nicklin, <i>Nature Conservancy</i> Oliver, one of the country's most popular and highly awarded poets, presents . . . beautifully tempered lyrics celebrating the splendor of the living world . . . Oliver's signature tropes are as vital as ever-her beloved birds, dogs, snakes, and ocean are all summoned to capture the breathtaking glory of life. <i>Booklist</i> The work of Mary Oliver is one of those rare and lovely convergences. She is a lyric artist with a riveted eye and an enormous heart, one of the nation's great spiritual sentinels. Brian Doyle, <i>Christian Century</i> These poems sustain us rather than divert us. Although few poets have fewer human beings in their poems than Mary Oliver, it is ironic that few poets also go so far to help us forward. Stephen Dobyns, <i>New York Times Book Review</i>
