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Mary Oliver’s Morning Poem

Like the Zen poets of China and Japan, American poet Mary Oliver’s work is deeply rooted in nature and her physical and ephemeral experience of the wilds that surround her. In Morning Poem, she communicates a deep optimism about the human condition; that even in the midst of heavy suffering, we can recognize a rightness… Continue reading Mary Oliver’s Morning Poem

Book Bits

Mary Oliver – May I Stay Forever in the Stream

“Attention is the beginning of devotion” is the last line of Upstream, Mary Oliver’s first essay in a collection of shorts that express her life’s trajectory towards nurturing and developing her creative spirit, always in intimate conversation with herself and with nature. The minute details of the self and the world that she outlines in… Continue reading Mary Oliver – May I Stay Forever in the Stream

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Susan Barba – How Should We Live Our Lives?

Declared ‘a poem worth framing’ by one reviewer, Susan Barba’s How Should We Live Our Lives? dips into a stream of questions and musings reminiscent in style of Mary Oliver’s simple and probing verse. She starts with love and trepidation and ends with an all-subsuming sea that contains motherhood, memory and consciousness too. Susan Barba… Continue reading Susan Barba – How Should We Live Our Lives?