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‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’

By Franklin Foer — 2019

The late poet Mary Oliver warned against looking without noticing. In an age of distraction, her work is more urgent than ever: "Her oeuvre became my morning ritual—and because she wrote with directness, the windowpane clarity achieved when a writer aims to persuade, I found myself reading many pages at a time"

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