Name: Red Bird
ISBN: 9780807097724

Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection of Oliver's finest lyrics.

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Red Bird

A collection of poems celebrates the many forms that love can take and bemoans the fate of the natural world.

worshipping the christian god who will punish you if you sin = broke. finding god in nature and its wonders = woke. 
absolutely in love with most of the poems, i wish to have this mindset when i grow old.

bronte

Why are we made the way we are made, that to love
    is to want?

erin s

“Let the world
        have its way with you,
            luminous as it is

with mystery
    and pain—
        graced as it is
            with the ordinary.”

Stunning as always.

giuli

Carolina Grajales 

A volume of sixty-one pieces by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer features her observations on the natural world, describes the writer's gratitude for nature's gifts, and remembers the friends she has cherished throughout the years, in a collection that is complemented by eleven linked poems that explore a theme of love. Reprint.

Red Bird Poems

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