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Poetry & perception

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Dream Work

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness — so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive — continues in Dream Work.

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Choices

When we stop plunging ahead in our activities long enough to just look, we become gentle.

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In a Dark Time

The poet touches rock bottom but begins to rise again out of his fear and madness until he feels a part of everything.

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"Although the wind . . ."

This poem reminds us that if we close ourselves off to pain, we will also be closed off to beauty and contentment.

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