A Thousand Mornings, (Paperback)

from Crazymamie

So I just picked this up from the library today - I had requested it for next month's poetry read for Mark's AAC. I took it out to the deck with me to just read one or two of the poems and get a feel for it, but I ended up just reading straight through. Really lovely collection of poetry mostly t...

from yeldabmoers

Mary Oliver's collection of poems, A Thousand Mornings, published this fall, is a poignant meditation on nature and the self. It reminded me of the nature writings of Annie Dillard, the essays of Thoreau and Emerson, and the poems of Whitman and the Transcendentalists. Oliver could be an adopted ...

from tangledthread

Mary Oliver's poetry always strikes a chord with me. This collection is very satisfying.

from bell7

Mary Oliver writes free verse poetry that has a lot of flow but not a lot of rhyme. Many of the poems are reflections of nature, sometimes almost a worshipful mood. I like nature, but not quite to that extent, so I found myself reading against the grain at times. But I enjoyed her vivid imagery a...

from bookworm12

I am not a poetry person, but so many people told me to try Mary Oliver. This was my first foray into her work and I absolutely loved it. Her observations about the beauty of simple moments in nature around her took my breath away. “The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of...