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Thirst by Mary Oliver

Thirst by Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver

Publication Year
2006
Pages
74
File Size
412 KB
ISBN
9780807068960

Thirst by Mary Oliver Summary

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet’s work. Grappling with grief at the death of the love of her life and partner of over forty years, the remarkable photographer Molly Malone Cook, 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. In three stunning long poems, Oliver explores the dimensions and tests the parameters of religious doctrine, asking of being good, for example, “To what purpose? Hope of Heaven? Not that. But to enter the other kingdom: grace, and imagination, and the multiple sympathies: to be as a leaf, a rose, a dolphin.”

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