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The renowned American poet presents her thoughts on the beauty of the earth, death, remembrance, her childhood impressions of nature, and the unexpected boon of a town dump, along with appreciations of Emerson and Hawthorne, and a section of poems and prose poetry.
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A collection of essays in which poet Mary Oliver "reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood 'friend' Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, 'a place to enter, and in which to feel,' and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing,...