House of Light - Oliver, Mary
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"Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, a "genuine, moving, and implausible" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver asks us in one of her most celebrated poems, "The Summer Day." House of Light, a collection of forty-six poems originally published in 1992, explores the themes of "how to love this world" and to be "in touch with something real." Meditative and soulful, these poems continue in Oliver's lyrical and embodied examination of the natural…mehr

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"Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, a "genuine, moving, and implausible" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver asks us in one of her most celebrated poems, "The Summer Day." House of Light, a collection of forty-six poems originally published in 1992, explores the themes of "how to love this world" and to be "in touch with something real." Meditative and soulful, these poems continue in Oliver's lyrical and embodied examination of the natural world. Attuned to the sprawling and teeming life abound, Oliver's words light up the page with the worldly splendors that surround us, even during our darkest moments"--
Autorenporträt
Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019.