Long Life av Mary Oliver

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<B>"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" ( <I>Miami Herald</I> ). This has never been truer than in <I>Long Life</I>, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems.</B><BR/><BR/> With the grace and precision that are the hallmarks of her work, Oliver shows us how writing "is a way of offering praise to the world" and suggests we see her poems as "little alleluias." Whether describing a goosefish stranded at low tide, the feeling of being baptized by the mist from a whale's blowhole, or the "connection between soul and landscape," Oliver invites readers to find themselves and their experiences at the center of her world. In <I>Long Life </I>she also speaks of poets and writers: Wordsworth's "whirlwind" of "beauty and strangeness"; Hawthorne's "sweet-tempered" side; and Emerson's belief that "a man's i