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Mary Oliver
Book Bits

The Poem Is a Place in Which to Feel: Mary Oliver’s Tribute to Walt Whitman

May 28, 2021May 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

In this stirring tribute to her shadow-companion and first poetic love Walt Whitman, poet Mary Oliver describes the experience of awakening to poetry as a door to the temple, a place 'in which to feel'.

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