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Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

32 reviews
Sales Rank: 8325

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 88
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6.1 x 0.4

ISBN: 0807068977
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780807068977
ASIN: 0807068977

Publication Date: September 3, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

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Now in paperback: the national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet

"To read Thirst, Mary Oliver's most recent book of poems, is to feel gratitude for the simple fact of being alive." ?Angela O'Donnell, America Magazine

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize–winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.

"Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing."
?Alicia Ostriker, The Nation

"It has always seemed, across her [many] books of poetry, . . . that Mary Oliver might leave us at any minute. Even a 1984 Pulitzer Prize couldn't pin her to the ground. She'd change quietly into a heron or a bear and fly or walk on forever."
?Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

"'My work is loving the world,' Oliver tells us?.She has always done that work?in poems of considerable beauty. Now she rises, not above the world, but through it."
?Jay Parini, The Guardian, 10/6/2007

"Mary Oliver is, to my mind, one of the most gifted American poets working in English today. In her hands, the language acquires a lucidity approaching translucence; the accuracy of her vision and the precision of her voice are unique in their refreshing simplicity. Perhaps most singular is the tendency of her poems to be at once powerful and appealing; an affection for the natural world and a sympathy toward the reader abide."
?Katherine Hollander, Pleiades, Fall 2007

"To read Thirst is to feel gratitude for the simple fact of being alive. This is not surprising, as it is the effect [Oliver's] best work has produced in readers for the past 43 years."
?Angela O'Donnell, America magazine

"'My work is loving the world.' That first line of 'Messenger,' the first poem in Mary Oliver's new collection Thirst (Beacon Press), names what she does better than any other poet writing today. Just as Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, which had a similar 'occasion,' was arguably her best work ever, so is Thirst Oliver's."
?Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter, 1/11/07

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5 out of 5 stars

God in Nature November 11, 2008
I love the serenity that comes over me when reading Mary Oliver's poetry. Her way of tying the physical and the spiritual speaks to my heart. I appreciate both nature and the God of my understanding better because of her words.

5 out of 5 stars

My favorite Mary Oliver collection August 18, 2008
"Thirst" is my favorite book of Mary Oliver's poems and prose. This contains some of her most overtly spiritual work. You can find a kindred spirit in her words. In addition to the title poem "Thirst," I especially loved "Making the House Ready for the Lord."

5 out of 5 stars

Inspiring May 20, 2008
*Thirst, Mary Oliver. The tone of this beautiful collection of poems is set in the first line of the first poem, entitled Messenger: "My work is loving the world." It is obvious in this collection and in the larger body of her work throughout her life that her work is loving the world deeply. And it is in this same spirit that, after the death in 2005 of her beloved longtime partner Molly Malone Cook, has led her back to the church she disengaged from many years ago. Her journey has always been a spiritual one. In her poems about Jesus, God, faith and sacraments it is clear that for her, rdeengaging with the church is part of loving the world. A line in her poem "A Beautiful Striped Sparrow" says it best: "as they promised,/ God, once he in your heart,/ is everywhere--"

Though her path is different from mine, and though it may be off-putting to some, I deeply appreciate and respect each of these poems. I look forward to seeing more from her as she continues her work of loving the world.

5 out of 5 stars

Poignant May 7, 2008
The poems in this volume are poignant and touched me deeply. I read from it almost daily and find something each time to relate to and discover.

5 out of 5 stars

Phenominal! April 21, 2008
This is a phenominal book of poetry that both the novice and seasoned poetry reader will enjoy. The poems are filled with palpable imagery and the rhythmic genius that I have come to expect and crave from Mary Oliver.

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